Platform Engineer (AI)

Location: New York City, United States; on-site

Salary: $250,000–$315,000 base salary per year, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops enterprise AI products that improve workflows for investment banks, private equity funds, and investment firms.

What you will do

• Design and implement scalable Kubernetes-based infrastructure for secure enterprise workloads.
• Define reliability initiatives, including SLOs, capacity planning, resilience improvements, and failure mitigation strategies.
• Identify and resolve system misconfigurations, architectural risks, and complex infrastructure problems.
• Own and improve deployment systems, environments, observability, operational workflows, and developer tooling.
• Build guardrails and self-service tools that help product engineers deliver more effectively.
• Contribute to engineering standards and partner with engineering, product, and leadership to accelerate delivery.

Requirements

• Extensive production-grade experience scaling Kubernetes from early-stage infrastructure to production-critical workloads.
• Deep understanding of distributed-systems tradeoffs and a strong systems mindset.
• Experience in big tech followed by a startup, or at a startup that successfully scaled its infrastructure.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity and taking ownership of broad technical areas.
• Ability to work on-site in New York City.

Nice to have

• Experience with single-tenant architectures.
• Background in financial services or regulated environments.
• Familiarity with banking-level security and data governance.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced startup environment focused on ambitious technical problems.
• Autonomous, self-directed work with significant ownership and company-wide impact.
• Collaboration with engineering, product, and leadership teams.
• Equity eligibility for full-time employees.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Paid time off.