Staff Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer (AWS)

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States

Salary: $211,000–$235,000 USD base salary per year, plus bonus and stock.

Company

hirify.global is a manufacturer-to-consumer retail brand that builds proprietary technology, AI, and analytics to deliver high-quality products at lower prices.

What you will do

• Define and execute the long-term infrastructure architecture roadmap aligned with business growth.
• Architect resilient, multi-region, cost-optimized AWS solutions for high-traffic, low-latency applications.
• Build enterprise-grade developer platforms and automated self-service tooling.
• Establish standards for availability, disaster recovery, failover strategies, incident management, security, and observability.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices across teams.
• Partner with engineering leadership, product managers, and security teams to resolve systemic bottlenecks.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in Infrastructure, DevOps, Platform, or SRE roles with architectural leadership experience.
• Deep expertise in AWS architecture, multi-account structures, network topology, cost governance, and cloud security.
• Advanced Kubernetes, service mesh, and enterprise infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.
• Expertise designing GitOps deployment workflows using ArgoCD, Flux, or GitHub Actions.
• Experience with MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, and DAX in high-load environments.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash, plus the ability to influence technical decisions without formal management authority.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven environment focused on reshaping retail and building more sustainable, accessible products.
• Fast-paced culture that encourages challenging conventional assumptions and solving complex problems.
• Opportunities to learn from colleagues, influence business direction, and take responsibility regardless of title or tenure.
• Base salary is supplemented by bonus and stock for eligible roles.
• Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.