Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure (Go)

Location: Remote within Ireland. Scheduling flexibility is expected for cross-timezone standups and incident response with teams in North America and Europe.

Company

hirify.global operates a WebOps platform used to build, iterate, and scale WordPress, Drupal, and Next.js websites for organizations worldwide.

What you will do

• Establish SRE practices across the Platform Infrastructure Engineering team and the broader Internal Platform Group, including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, incident response, and toil reduction.
• Define observability standards using Prometheus metrics, OpenTelemetry tracing, structured logging, and Grafana.
• Build reusable service templates, Terraform modules, Go APIs, CLIs, Cloud Run services, and GKE workloads with reliability and observability included by default.
• Lead adoption of GCP-native managed services, including Secret Manager, Cloud SQL, Cloud Run, GKE, GitHub Actions, and Cloud Build.
• Apply security and compliance practices across IAM, IAP, VPC design, networking, secrets management, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS requirements.
• Mentor engineers, provide technical direction, operate systems through their full lifecycle, and join the on-call rotation after an initial 3–6 month ramp period.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building and operating production systems, with significant infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering experience.
• Deep knowledge of SRE principles, including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, incident management, on-call practices, and measurable reliability improvements.
• Strong hands-on experience with Go 1.21+, Python, GCP, Cloud Run, GKE or equivalent Kubernetes platforms, Cloud SQL, IAM, networking, and managed services.
• Strong Terraform skills, including designing reusable modules and infrastructure patterns adopted across teams.
• Production experience with Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, metrics, traces, logs, IAP, VPC design, and security or compliance frameworks.
• Experience setting technical direction, building self-service developer platforms, influencing engineers without direct authority, and communicating reliability risks clearly.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-forward, distributed engineering environment with a focus on collaboration, autonomy, character, and a no-blame culture.
• 28 days of holiday, private medical and dental coverage, life and critical illness insurance, and a workplace pension scheme.
• Industry-competitive compensation with an equity plan.
• Top-of-line equipment, wellness and reading allowance, and access to LinkedIn Learning.
• Team and company-wide events and activities.
• Visa sponsorship is not available.