Senior Cloud Engineer

Location: San Francisco, United States

Salary: $122,000–$204,000 per year, depending on location and market factors.

Company

hirify.global operates a large fan platform covering entertainment, gaming, television, film, and related media, reaching hundreds of millions of visitors and hosting more than 250,000 wikis.

What you will do

• Design and scale high-availability routing architectures across on-premise data centers, AWS, and GCP.
• Automate cloud, edge, Kubernetes, and CI/CD infrastructure as code using Terraform and Chef.
• Maintain production MySQL environments, including replication, automated failover, disaster recovery, and performance tuning.
• Develop internal tools for operational automation, backups, security monitoring, and system performance.
• Lead planning meetings, retrospectives, root-cause analyses, and operational excellence initiatives.
• Participate in on-call rotations, respond to incidents, and collaborate with and mentor engineering teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Technical Operations, Network Operations, DevOps, or SRE roles supporting large-scale production platforms.
• Deep proficiency in Linux administration, TCP/IP, routing, secure systems practices, and Go, Python, or Bash scripting.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins, and monitoring systems such as Prometheus.
• Production MySQL experience, including replication topologies, failover mechanisms, and performance tuning.
• Experience using generative AI tools and the ability to audit their outputs for accuracy, security, and context.
• Based in San Francisco, United States.

Nice to have

• Advanced Cloudflare expertise covering CDN optimization, WAF, DNS, edge performance, and Cloudflare Tunnels.
• Knowledge of distributed systems, edge caching, and the ELK stack.
• Experience defining SLOs, implementing observability, reducing alert noise, and driving postmortem actions.

Culture & Benefits

• Vibrant team culture and an international work environment with startup culture.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Unlimited Udemy training and additional learning opportunities.
• Flexible working hours and time off.
• Equity and retirement programs, including a 401(k) match.
• Paid parental leave.