Senior Engineer - Production Cloud and Container Services (Kubernetes)

Location: Hybrid near hirify.global offices in San Francisco, Denver, or New York; remote candidates may be considered within the United States, United Kingdom, or Canada. Core business hours are required, with occasional nights and weekends for on-call coverage. Travel may be required.

Salary: $181,220–$217,464 annually in the US, plus potential equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Company

hirify.global provides an edge cloud platform for processing, serving, and securing applications close to end users.

What you will do

• Design, build, operate, and scale infrastructure for reliable deployment across multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-premise environments.
• Manage hirify.global’s Kubernetes-based control-plane platform and support containerized workloads and native cloud services.
• Diagnose and resolve performance, availability, and reliability issues across applications, operating systems, networks, APIs, and dependencies.
• Deploy and support complex third-party and internally developed applications.
• Develop tools to automate server, service, application maintenance, and infrastructure deployment.
• Collaborate with internal users and distributed teams to evolve the platform, manage cloud access, and deliver projects.

Requirements

• More than 5 years of related experience running high-availability systems and distributed infrastructure.
• Experience designing fault-tolerant services across geographies and managing multi-tiered services.
• Strong Linux knowledge, including tcpdump and tracing tools.
• Production experience with Kubernetes clusters across multiple regions, clouds, or data centers, plus CNCF tooling such as Prometheus, Flux, and Helm.
• Programming experience with Go and Python, including work on large codebases and medium-sized infrastructure tools such as Kubernetes controllers or Prometheus exporters.
• Experience with Terraform, AWS, GCP, EC2, S3, GKE, CI/CD, GitOps, GitHub, Datadog, and Grafana.

Nice to have

• Experience using AI tooling such as Claude Code to accelerate engineering work and create effective skills or agents.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model with flexibility to split time between office and home.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance in the US.
• Family planning, mental health support, Employee Assistance Program, life, disability, and accident insurance.
• Flexible vacation, up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave, 11 paid local holidays, and 12 paid company wellness days in 2026.
• 401(k) with company match and Employee Stock Purchase Program.