Staff Infrastructure Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote in the United States; offices are available in Seattle and Paris. The role may require participation in an on-call rotation, including evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Salary: $170,350–$275,550 annually in the United States, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global builds developer tools and infrastructure products including hirify.global Desktop, hirify.global Hub, and hirify.global Scout, serving more than 20 million monthly users.

What you will do

• Own and evolve compute, storage, networking, CI/CD, and observability infrastructure for Billing Platform services.
• Design and maintain Terraform infrastructure on AWS, including reusable module patterns and team standards.
• Build observability systems covering metrics, logging, and alerting for billing accuracy and payment reliability.
• Define safe deployment workflows for AI-agent-assisted development, including rollback procedures, promotion gates, and automated validation.
• Partner with software engineers on service design, identify systemic risks, and drive improvements across teams.
• Lead billing incidents, participate in on-call, and mentor engineers across the team.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or SRE roles supporting production SaaS systems at scale.
• Deep AWS experience with ECS or EKS, RDS, PostgreSQL, networking, IAM, and cost management.
• Expert-level Terraform experience, including reusable module design and infrastructure standards.
• Operational and architectural Kubernetes experience, plus ownership of organizational observability stacks such as Datadog or Grafana.
• Strong CI/CD experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent, including pipeline design and developer experience ownership.
• Strong written English is required. The role is remote in the United States. A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with billing, payments, or financial systems infrastructure.
• Experience with threat modeling, blast-radius analysis, least-privilege design, and audit trails.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work model with flexible scheduling and offices for collaboration.
• Generous paid time off, quarterly Whaleness Days, and an end-of-year Whaleness break.
• Home office support and a technology stipend of US$100 net per month.
• Annual learning and development stipend for conferences, courses, and certifications.
• Sixteen weeks of paid parental leave after six months, equity for full-time employees, and country-dependent medical, retirement, and holiday benefits.

Hiring process

• hirify.global may use AI-assisted recruiting tools.
• Interview recordings are optional and require explicit consent.
• Onboarding includes shipping code early, shadowing on-call, and progressively taking ownership of infrastructure components.