Lead Software Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: Hybrid role assigned to a facility in Bloomington, Illinois; Dunwoody, Georgia; Richardson, Texas; or Tempe, Arizona. Approximately 40% in-office time each month is required beginning in late 2027.

Potential starting salary: $130,000–$180,000 per year, plus potential yearly incentive pay of up to 15% of base salary.

Company

hirify.global is developing technology that strengthens human connections and improves the customer experience.

What you will do

• Build and improve guided portal workflows for workspaces, services, deployables, and other platform capabilities.
• Develop accessible, responsive interfaces that clarify complex provisioning choices for engineers.
• Build and support Portal APIs that validate requests, provide resource values to the control plane, and display provisioning status and errors.
• Collaborate with the Experience Orchestration team on resource definitions, workflows, and troubleshooting across the Portal and Kubernetes control plane.
• Occasionally contribute to XRDs, CRDs, or controllers when platform capabilities require it.
• Test, document, and support delivered features.

Requirements

• Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes and Kubernetes Resource Management, including custom resources, schemas, permissions, and desired versus observed state.
• UI/UX development experience with Angular or a comparable modern framework.
• Experience building or integrating APIs and independently delivering tested software features.
• Ability to diagnose problems across application code, GitOps workflows, and Kubernetes resources.
• Practical interest in making platform capabilities understandable and useful to other engineers.
• Applicants must be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer sponsorship for U.S. work authorization, including H-1B, is not available.

Nice to have

• Experience developing in Go.
• Angular and TypeScript experience.
• Experience with Crossplane, XRDs, CRDs, Kubernetes controllers, or controller-runtime.
• Familiarity with GitOps, Argo CD, accessibility practices, and automated UI and API testing.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employment with a standard 38:45-hour work week and a hybrid office/home arrangement.
• Annual raises, bonus eligibility, health, dental, vision, telemedicine, and mental health benefits.
• Training programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, mentoring, and other educational benefits.
• Paid time off, initially up to 20 days annually, plus parental, paid holiday, bereavement, community service, and education support days.
• Retirement benefits include a 401(k) with company contributions of up to 7% of salary.