Staff Platform Engineer (AWS/Kubernetes)

Location: Remote within the United States; travel required 2–4 times per year

Base salary: $136,880–$210,891 per year

Company

hirify.global is a digital health company that delivers behavior-changing healthcare content across a network of physician offices to improve patient and provider outcomes.

What you will do

• Lead multi-quarter platform programs spanning cloud accounts, CI/CD, identity, and artifact management.
• Set technical direction through design documents and decision records, building alignment across Engineering and Security.
• Define service levels, alerting, and on-call models for platform-supported services.
• Sequence changes across interconnected systems and ensure reliability improvements reach production safely.
• Prioritize platform work using cost and risk analysis.
• Mentor Senior engineers through design reviews while remaining hands-on with critical changes.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in software, cloud, infrastructure, systems, networking, SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating production cloud infrastructure, containers, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, or similar technologies.
• Experience leading technical initiatives across multiple systems or teams from proposal through completion.
• Experience designing for reliability and security, including access models, deployment safety, observability, and incident response.
• Ability to influence teams and leadership, work through ambiguity, and communicate through clear technical documentation.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes platforms, EKS, GitOps, multi-account AWS organizations, IAM, and cross-account networking.
• Experience with Azure, New Relic, PagerDuty, or similar tools.
• Experience securing CI/CD with federated identity, short-lived credentials, secrets management, and software supply-chain controls.
• Experience with SLOs, vendor evaluations, AI-assisted operational tooling, or regulated environments such as healthcare, HIPAA, and SOC 2.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with competitive compensation and benefits.
• Flexible time off, mental and emotional wellness resources, and a 401(k) plan.
• Flexible and hybrid work options are available within the broader organization.
• Travel is expected 2–4 times per year.