Senior Engineer - Platform (Kubernetes)

Location: 100% remote, with residence or working hours aligned to the ANZ or PST timezone

Company

hirify.global develops a secure, reliable software delivery platform used by high-growth technology companies worldwide.

What you will do

• Own substantial parts of the AWS and multi-cluster Kubernetes platform from design through production operation.
• Build reusable, self-service automation for secure and consistent platform environments.
• Design regional architecture, customer routing, disaster recovery, and tested failover capabilities.
• Improve Kubernetes networking, upgrades, patching, scaling, observability, capacity management, and recovery.
• Make infrastructure changes safer through secure defaults, progressive delivery, automated guardrails, health signals, and rollback.
• Diagnose distributed-system problems, improve operational workflows, lead design discussions, review code, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• Senior-level experience owning production systems through growth, failures, migrations, and incidents.
• Production experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code.
• Experience managing production infrastructure with Terraform or an equivalent tool, including DNS, IAM, monitoring, and secrets.
• Strong reliability practices covering observability, incident response, recovery testing, and operational improvement.
• Experience building CI/CD, internal-platform, or self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
• Ability to work in the ANZ or PST timezone and collaborate effectively in a distributed team.

Nice to have

• Experience with multi-region or multi-cluster systems, traffic routing, and disaster recovery.
• Experience with progressive delivery, deployment guardrails, and rollback.
• Platform-level authentication, identity, or compliance controls implemented through engineering.
• Experience operating relational databases, caches, or queues, including migrations, replication, failover, and workload isolation.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote, async-first work environment with intentional meetings and protected focus time.
• Work from anywhere in the world for up to six weeks per year in addition to the remote setup.
• 20 days of paid annual leave and 10 days of sick and carer's leave.
• Paid parental leave, remote-work allowance, confidential EAP, and mental health support.
• Learning and growth budget, plus region-dependent retirement and health coverage.