Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Paze

Location: San Francisco, California; hybrid work model. Candidates must independently be eligible to work in the United States for any employer. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Salary: $157,000–$192,000 USD per year in San Francisco, plus eligibility for a discretionary incentive plan and benefits.

Company

hirify.global provides payment and financial technology solutions, including Zelle and Paze, for financial institutions, consumers, and small businesses.

What you will do

• Define availability standards and implement reliability, resiliency, scalability, and latency improvements across applications and infrastructure.
• Build automation and tooling for deployments, configuration changes, application management, and disaster recovery.
• Design and promote observability and monitoring systems to detect problems and identify root causes proactively.
• Evaluate application capacity, identify performance bottlenecks, and recommend scalable solutions to Product and Business teams.
• Lead incident troubleshooting, create documentation and runbooks for Level 1 and Level 2 teams, and collaborate with development teams on microservice design.
• Participate in a 24 X 7 on-call rotation, develop reusable engineering patterns, and coach team members.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field, with typically 8+ years of progressive technical or software development experience.
• Experience leading high-priority incident response, improving root cause analysis, and troubleshooting complex environments.
• Hands-on experience with Python, Go, or Java; Docker; microservices architecture; messaging frameworks such as Kafka, SQS, or JMS; databases; and caching technologies.
• Strong understanding of Linux administration, TCP/UDP/IP protocols, and CI/CD pipeline implementation using tools such as Git, Chef, Maven, or Jenkins.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and designing complex end-to-end systems.
• Successful completion of a background and drug screen, plus United States work eligibility without visa sponsorship.

Nice to have

• Programming experience with Ruby or JavaScript in addition to the required languages.
• Experience supporting applications in a 24 X 7 customer-facing production environment.
• Working knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, or Swarm.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid office environment designed to support collaboration.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with HSA and FSA options.
• 401(k) plan with a 100% company safe harbor match on the first 6% deferred.
• Flexible time off for exempt employees, paid holidays, and a paid volunteer day.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave and family-planning support through Maven.