Principal Site Reliability Engineer (AWS)

Location: Hybrid work in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York; candidates must be eligible to work in the United States.

Base pay in Phoenix, AZ: $194,000–$237,000 per year, plus eligibility for a discretionary incentive plan and benefits.

Company

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

What you will do

• Design and implement software, infrastructure, and resiliency patterns that improve availability, scalability, latency, performance, and security.
• Build automation and tooling for deployments, configuration changes, application management, and disaster recovery.
• Design and promote observability and monitoring systems to detect issues proactively and identify root causes.
• Evaluate application capacity, identify performance bottlenecks, and recommend scaling strategies with Product and Business teams.
• Lead incident response, provide technical guidance and runbooks to Level 1 and Level 2 teams, and collaborate with application development teams on microservice architecture and software lifecycle practices.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation, develop reusable engineering standards, and coach and mentor team members.

Requirements

• 12+ years of related experience in technical or software development environments, typically with a bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Experience leading high-priority incident response, improving root-cause analysis, troubleshooting complex environments, and leading cross-functional teams.
• Hands-on experience with one or more of Python, Go, or Java; Docker; microservices architecture; messaging frameworks such as Kafka, SQS, or JMS; databases such as Oracle, DynamoDB, or Aurora; and caching technologies such as Redis or Memcached.
• Strong understanding of Linux administration and networking fundamentals.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines with Git, Chef, Maven, Jenkins, or similar tools.
• Must independently possess U.S. employment eligibility; visa sponsorship is not available. A background and drug screen are required.

Nice to have

• Programming experience with Java, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, or Go.
• Experience supporting customer-facing production applications in a 24x7 environment.
• Working knowledge of AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, or Swarm.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative hybrid office environment.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, with HSA or FSA contributions.
• 401(k) plan with a 100% company Safe Harbor Match on the first 6% of deferral.
• Flexible time off for exempt employees, paid holidays, and a paid volunteer day.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave and family-planning support.