Platform Engineer (AWS)

Location: Remote

Salary: $150,000–$170,000 per year, depending on experience, plus benefits

Company

hirify.global operates a hospitality technology platform that connects diners with restaurants through its app, rewards program, and restaurant partnerships.

What you will do

• Build, operate, and evolve AWS infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and managed services.
• Design for high availability, predictable performance, financial correctness, reliability, and operational simplicity.
• Build safe, repeatable, and observable deployment pipelines and support capacity planning and controlled change management.
• Participate in infrastructure incident response, root-cause analysis, on-call rotations, and operational improvement.
• Develop observability through metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting.
• Secure AWS resources, IAM policies, secrets, and network boundaries while collaborating with application engineers.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure in cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, ElastiCache, ALB/NLB, and CloudWatch.
• Understanding of containerized workloads and orchestration concepts.
• Experience supporting highly available, fault-tolerant systems and debugging production incidents involving networking, scaling, or service degradation.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or an equivalent tool.
• Experience contributing to infrastructure migrations and production changes.

Nice to have

• Experience operating infrastructure for financial systems or other high-reliability domains.
• Experience working through organizational growth and increasing infrastructure complexity.
• Experience simplifying, retiring, or rearchitecting existing infrastructure.
• Familiarity with observability and strong operational practices.
• Comfort working with a Rails-based application stack while remaining tool-agnostic.

Culture & Benefits

• Meaningful ownership of production infrastructure in a small, growing platform team.
• Generous paid time off and company holidays.
• Company-paid short-term disability coverage.
• 100% employer-covered health and dental insurance for direct employees under the standard plan; higher-tier and dependent coverage options are available at additional cost.
• Childcare benefits and generous parental leave.