Staff Engineer - Platform Engineering

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark; hybrid work with an average of 3 days per week in the office

Company

hirify.global develops digital products and provides the platforms and infrastructure that enable engineering teams across Digital Technology to build, operate, and scale them.

What you will do

• Set technical direction across Cloud Enablement, Container Platform, Edge Platform, Observability, and Hosting Platforms.
• Align architecture, standards, and platform evolution across multiple products and product families.
• Improve architectural consistency and platform adoption across Digital Technology.
• Support Lead Engineers in executing strategic technology decisions and modernizing platform infrastructure.
• Reduce technical debt and strengthen engineering excellence across cloud, platform, and infrastructure domains.
• Work with Principal Engineers, Lead Engineers, Engineering Directors, and product teams to advance platform capabilities and operational excellence.

Requirements

• Experience delivering cloud platform architecture in enterprise-scale environments.
• Experience building platform engineering capabilities for multiple engineering teams or products.
• Experience leading distributed systems and infrastructure engineering initiatives with measurable impact.
• Experience establishing technical direction, standards, or architecture roadmaps across complex technology landscapes.
• Ability to work from the hirify.global Hub in Copenhagen under a hybrid policy averaging 3 office days per week.

Nice to have

• Applied FinOps practices to improve cloud governance and efficiency.
• Developed or enhanced observability and telemetry platforms for large-scale operations.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across capability communities, architecture forums, planning processes, engineering leaders, and product teams.
• Opportunities to coach others, guide organizational change, apply systems thinking, and build trusted partnerships.
• Enhanced paid family care leave.
• Life and disability insurance, wellbeing resources, colleague discount, and an eligible bonus scheme.
• Inclusive culture focused on curiosity, creativity, continuous improvement, and equal opportunity.

Hiring process

• Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis.
• Hybrid policy and role eligibility will be discussed during the recruitment process.
• Reasonable accommodations are available throughout the application process.