Staff Software Engineer, Platform (AI)

Location: Seattle, WA, United States

Salary: $180,000–$240,000 annually, plus performance-based bonus and equity.

Company

hirify.global is building an AI-native system of work for enterprise marketing, using agents to execute campaigns across existing tools, teams, and workflows.

What you will do

• Set the technical direction for the platform across infrastructure, reliability, developer experience, security, performance, and cost.
• Own the reliability, scalability, and operational health of the production platform.
• Lead platform initiatives from problem definition and architecture through hands-on implementation and production deployment.
• Evolve Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure-as-code foundations as the product and engineering organization scales.
• Build tooling, abstractions, and automation that improve development, deployment, and production operations.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture, design reviews, mentorship, incident response, and cross-functional collaboration.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial platform engineering, infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps experience.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, cloud-native architecture, container orchestration, and production infrastructure.
• Strong experience with infrastructure as code, GitOps, CI/CD workflows, and modern deployment practices.
• Strong command of metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, observability, reliability, and incident response.
• Ability to lead complex platform initiatives while remaining hands-on and influencing engineers without formal authority.
• Role location: Seattle, WA, United States.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI or ML infrastructure, GPU provisioning, model deployment, or compute-intensive workloads.
• Experience supporting cloud or multi-cloud environments with demanding reliability and scaling requirements.
• Proficiency with TypeScript or Python for internal tooling and operational automation.

Culture & Benefits

• Performance-based annual bonus and meaningful equity awards.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, including fully covered employee premiums and 75% dependent coverage.
• Fertility and family-planning support and a 401k plan.
• Unlimited PTO and flexible work hours.
• Seattle office with a gym, sauna, bike parking, and free lunch three days per week.
• Fast-paced, low-bureaucracy environment focused on ownership, learning, AI literacy, and customer impact.