Platform Engineer (AWS)

Location: Fully remote from the Americas or European time zones, with consistent overlap with Americas working hours and occasional travel for team offsites, conferences, and meetups.

Salary: $150,000–$180,000 USD annually, depending on location and experience.

Company

hirify.global is building a modern email sending platform and developer tools used by more than 4 million developers.

What you will do

• Build and improve the platform infrastructure and tooling that enables reliable, secure, and efficient engineering work.
• Design and operate scalable AWS cloud infrastructure with a focus on reliability, performance, and security.
• Automate operational work and create self-service workflows for common infrastructure and engineering tasks.
• Establish platform standards for consistent service development, deployment, and operation.
• Improve reliability and observability, participate in incident response, and turn operational issues into lasting improvements.
• Partner with engineers across the organization to solve infrastructure and platform problems and build reusable solutions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or SRE.
• Strong production infrastructure-as-code experience with tools such as AWS CDK, Terraform, or Pulumi.
• Understanding of distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, including queues, workers, databases, caching, networking, and load balancing.
• Solid working knowledge of AWS and strong experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.
• Ability to work across the stack, from load balancers and networking to delivery pipelines.
• Clear written and spoken English and consistent overlap with Americas working hours.

Nice to have

• Experience operating high-throughput systems at scale.
• Experience building internal platforms, developer tooling, or self-service infrastructure.
• Experience with developer tools, public APIs, or email infrastructure.
• Deep experience with Node, TypeScript, Go, and Postgres.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with flexibility around shared working hours.
• Meaningful ownership and autonomy in deciding what to build and how it operates.
• High quality standards covering API behavior and service recovery.
• Collaborative, low-ego environment with knowledge sharing and direct feedback.
• Occasional travel for team offsites, conferences, and meetups.