Senior Platform Infrastructure Software Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: United States (Remote)

Salary: $84,629–$155,152 USD annually

Company

hirify.global, a Lumen company, provides a Network Infrastructure as a Service platform for building and operating global enterprise cloud networks.

What you will do

• Operate the global Kubernetes cluster footprint across regions and cloud providers, including provisioning, upgrades, multi-tenancy, policies, and failure isolation.
• Own internal CI/CD and build-platform clusters, including capacity, isolation, scaling, and build performance.
• Provide shared databases, object storage, container registries, and platform services with appropriate provisioning, access, lifecycle, and cost controls.
• Design disaster recovery capabilities covering backup, restore, replication, failover, RTO/RPO targets, and recovery exercises.
• Build reusable Terraform/OpenTofu modules, production tooling in Go or Python, and observability standards for other engineering teams.
• Mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, reduce infrastructure drift and cost, and participate in the platform on-call rotation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of professional infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or SRE experience with production ownership.
• Deep production experience operating Kubernetes clusters and strong Terraform or OpenTofu experience at scale.
• Strong programming ability in Go, Python, or a comparable language.
• Experience with stateful shared infrastructure, Linux fundamentals, networking concepts, and at least one major cloud provider.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer-sponsored visa support.

Nice to have

• Experience with internal or developer platforms, Scalr, OPA, GitOps, ArgoCD, Flux, Helm, Kustomize, or operator development.
• Experience managing self-hosted CI runners and observability systems such as Prometheus or Thanos.
• Experience building highly available, multi-tenant SaaS platforms and influencing engineering strategy.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote role within the United States.
• Human, connected, and collaborative work environment with clear expectations and shared accountability.
• Opportunity to work on cloud-native enterprise networking and AI-focused technology.
• Employment includes background screening where applicable.

Hiring process

• Coding challenge.
• Hiring manager screening.
• Technical interviews.