Senior Software Development Engineer, DevOps and Network Software Infrastructure (DevOps)

Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington; U.S. employment eligibility required

Base pay for Washington applicants: $197,529–$276,539.55 per year.

Company

hirify.global develops reusable space vehicles and systems and is building TeraWave, a satellite communications network using interconnected LEO and MEO satellites.

What you will do

• Architect, build, and operate CI/CD infrastructure for networking, SDN, MAC, platform, and ground software teams.
• Develop automated build, test, packaging, release, and deployment pipelines for distributed points of presence, gateways, and edge systems.
• Build infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management frameworks for cloud, data center, and laboratory environments.
• Create integration and test environments with network emulation, topology simulation, traffic generation, and failure-injection testing.
• Design artifact, versioning, release-management, observability, alerting, and automated diagnostic systems.
• Partner with networking, security, platform, and systems engineering teams to improve deployment reliability and engineering velocity.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related technical field.
• At least 5 years of software engineering, DevOps, platform, infrastructure, or site reliability experience.
• Software development experience with Python, Go, Rust, or Java.
• Experience operating production CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Argo CD.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Helm, or equivalent configuration-management systems.
• Applicants must be U.S. citizens or nationals, U.S. permanent residents, refugees, or asylees lawfully admitted to the United States.

Nice to have

• 7 or more years of experience building infrastructure for large-scale distributed, telecommunications, or mission-critical systems.
• Experience with Linux-based distributed systems, IP networking, routing protocols, IP/MPLS, Segment Routing, SDN, and network automation.
• Experience with GitOps, immutable infrastructure, software supply-chain security, secrets management, staged deployments, and rollback controls.
• Experience building network test infrastructure with traffic generators, virtual topologies, emulators, simulators, or digital twins.

Culture & Benefits

• Safety, collaboration, inclusion, trust, equality, and teamwork are emphasized.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, and paid parental leave.
• 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%.
• Education Support Program, stock options for eligible regular employees, up to four weeks of paid time off, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
• Background checks are required; additional checks may apply depending on the role.