Staff Site Reliability Engineer (AWS/PCI DSS)

Location: Remote, hybrid, or in-office. Remote and hybrid employees must reside in California, Illinois, Texas, Minnesota, Colorado, Georgia, New York, Massachusetts, or Connecticut. Periodic on-site work in Santa Barbara is required for physical server support. Hired employees must verify eligibility to work in the United States.

Base salary: $175,000–$230,000 per year, plus the Total Rewards Plan.

Company

hirify.global develops payment systems for businesses and processes more than $12 billion annually.

What you will do

• Own production uptime, responsiveness, and incident response for payment-processing systems.
• Drive containerization of legacy internal DevOps services into a modern, reproducible platform.
• Engineer reliable, secure, and cost-aware AWS infrastructure with Terraform.
• Manage infrastructure as code across physical, virtual, containerized, and cloud environments using Puppet/OpenVox, Terraform, and Ansible.
• Administer Linux systems end to end, including cloud instances, physical servers, and data center infrastructure.
• Build secure infrastructure for analytics and BI tooling while providing technical leadership and documenting architecture decisions.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience in development, DevOps, or site reliability engineering.
• 5+ years administering Linux servers in production.
• 3+ years building and operating production AWS infrastructure and container workloads.
• 3+ years with configuration management, infrastructure as code, and automation scripting.
• Hands-on physical server and data center experience, with willingness to perform periodic on-site work in Santa Barbara.
• United States work eligibility is required, and residence in one of the listed states is mandatory.

Nice to have

• Experience operating in an audited or regulated environment such as PCI DSS.
• Experience building infrastructure for BI or analytics platforms.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Choice of remote, in-office, or hybrid work with company-provided home-office equipment and an equipment stipend.
• Company-paid health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
• 401(k) with a 6% company match, FSA, disability coverage, paid holidays, paid time off, and a volunteer day.
• Annual learning stipend and quarterly team bonding budgets.
• People-first culture focused on long-term relationships, collaboration, integrity, and professional growth.