Senior/Staff Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: Remote for candidates based in Brazil, Mexico, or Canada; Pacific Hours, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM PST, with on-call every 4–5 weeks.

Company

hirify.global provides technology and engineering services involving complex cloud, platform, and infrastructure environments.

What you will do

• Design, build, operate, and improve production Kubernetes platforms, including cluster architecture, networking, security, scaling, and reliability.
• Diagnose complex failures across Kubernetes, containers, Linux, networking, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems.
• Develop production tooling, internal services, APIs, and automation using Go, Python, or Java.
• Own reliability engineering, incident response, SLOs, SLIs, observability, disaster recovery, and operational improvements.
• Build infrastructure as code with Terraform and improve CI/CD, deployment, migration, rollback, and production validation workflows.
• Lead ambiguous infrastructure initiatives, communicate technical decisions to stakeholders, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, or related fields; 10+ years is preferred for Staff-level candidates.
• Hands-on experience building and operating production Kubernetes platforms, not only deploying applications to existing clusters.
• Production programming experience in Go, Python, or Java.
• Strong Linux, networking, cloud, Terraform, automation, troubleshooting, incident response, and distributed-systems experience.
• Experience with observability, CI/CD infrastructure, Docker, high availability, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and production resilience.
• Must currently be based in Brazil, Mexico, or Canada and be available during Pacific working hours.

Nice to have

• Cloud or infrastructure migration experience, including cutover and rollback strategies.
• Large-scale or multi-cluster Kubernetes, hybrid cloud, on-premises, virtualized, or bare-metal experience.
• Kubernetes controllers or operators, advanced networking, service mesh, mTLS, workload identity, or multi-cloud experience.
• Disaster recovery testing, performance engineering, platform tooling, infrastructure security, or compliance experience.
• Technical leadership, mentoring, or customer-facing consulting experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work within the stated candidate locations.
• Autonomous work with ownership of complex infrastructure initiatives.
• Direct collaboration with customer and internal engineering teams.
• Distributed, highly technical environment with a focus on clear technical communication and ownership.
• On-call participation approximately every 4–5 weeks.