Senior Principal Engineer - Platform and SRE (Hybrid - Seattle)

Location: Hybrid in Seattle, Washington; minimum four days per week in the hirify.global corporate headquarters

Salary: $200,500–$332,000 annual

Company

hirify.global is a large retail and e-commerce company developing enterprise-scale cloud platforms, continuous delivery systems, and reliability engineering capabilities.

What you will do

• Own the two- to three-year architecture direction for the cloud platform, CI/CD, and SRE.
• Lead the evolution toward autonomous deployments, predictive runtime scaling, and mature multi-region operations.
• Establish reliability targets, deliberate degradation patterns, design standards, and production validation gates.
• Drive technical alignment across Platform, SRE, Security, product, and engineering teams.
• Act as a technical decision maker during significant incidents and convert lessons learned into platform defaults.
• Mentor senior and principal engineers, influence hiring, and represent platform engineering externally.

Requirements

• 15+ years of professional software or infrastructure engineering experience and a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Deep hands-on architecture experience with large-scale cloud platforms, production Kubernetes workloads, multi-account estates, and centrally owned shared services.
• Enterprise continuous delivery experience, including progressive delivery, canary analysis, immutable artifacts, versioned configuration, and robust rollback design.
• Experience with software supply chain security, build provenance, artifact signing or attestation, deployment-time policy enforcement, SLOs, error budgets, observability, and incident command.
• Experience designing resilience strategies such as cell-based architecture, multi-region active-passive or active-active systems, concurrent-write consistency, and rehearsed failover.
• Experience handling predictable seasonal traffic peaks, capacity forecasting, load and scale testing, chaos exercises, cost trade-offs, and influence without formal authority.

Nice to have

• Experience in retail, e-commerce, marketplace, or another seasonal high-traffic environment.
• Informed experience evaluating AI, agent-based investigation, and automated remediation for operations and delivery.
• Experience with engineering organizational design and centralized operations failure modes.

Culture & Benefits

• Strategic, cross-organizational technical influence with opportunities to shape engineering standards.
• Medical, vision, dental, life, and disability insurance options.
• Retirement benefits including 401(k), paid time away, and holidays.
• Merchandise discount, employee assistance resources, and potential performance-based incentives.