Lead Platform Software Engineer (AWS/Terraform)

Location: Hybrid position based at a hirify.global facility in Bloomington, Illinois; Dunwoody, Georgia; Richardson, Texas; or Tempe, Arizona. Approximately 40% in-office time each month will be required beginning in late 2027. Applicants must be eligible to work lawfully in the U.S. immediately; visa sponsorship is not available.

Starting salary: $120,000–$150,000 per year, based on skills, background, and experience. Potential yearly incentive pay is up to 15% of base salary.

Company

hirify.global is developing technology that strengthens human connections and improves customer experiences through enterprise-scale software and engineering platforms.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and enhance enterprise CI/CD platforms across the software delivery lifecycle.
• Create reusable pipelines, automated workflows, and self-service solutions for building, testing, and deploying applications.
• Use AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, and GitOps to support scalable infrastructure and deployments.
• Standardize deployment processes across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Integrate security, compliance, quality checks, secrets management, access controls, automated scanning, and software supply-chain protections.
• Partner with software engineering, SRE, QA, security, and product teams; establish engineering standards, mentor engineers, and improve platform reliability and developer productivity.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience designing, building, or maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or similar technologies.
• Experience with AWS, Terraform, reusable workflows, automation solutions, or infrastructure templates.
• Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of secure software delivery, access management, automated testing, and security integration.
• Experience with Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, or similar scripting or programming languages.
• Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate across engineering teams and contribute to technical design decisions.

Nice to have

• Experience building internal developer platforms, self-service tools, or standardized delivery workflows.
• Advanced knowledge of GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, runners, and enterprise CI/CD governance.
• Familiarity with OpenShift/ROSA, ArgoCD, GitOps, Kubernetes resource management, or templating.
• Experience integrating security scanning, policy-as-code, SBOMs, or artifact signing into delivery pipelines.
• Experience defining CI/CD architecture or engineering standards across multiple development teams.
• Familiarity with deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and MTTR metrics.
• Experience mentoring engineers, influencing technical decisions, or leading engineering improvements.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employment with a standard 38:45-hour work week and a hybrid office-and-home arrangement.
• Health, vision, dental, telemedicine, mental health, and wellbeing programs, with hirify.global paying most of the healthcare premium.
• Training programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, mentoring, and other educational benefits.
• Paid time off, up to 20 days initially, parental leave, paid holidays, life leave, bereavement leave, and community service or education support days.
• Retirement planning, financial coaching, and a 401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of salary.