Principal Engineer, Platform Engineering (Cloud Network & Reliability)

Location: United States; senior technical coverage is required during U.S. business hours.

Company

hirify.global delivers a cloud-native distributed SQL database that unifies transactions and analytics for data-intensive applications.

What you will do

• Define cloud networking architecture and standards across AWS, GCP, Azure, and internal infrastructure.
• Design routing, segmentation, firewalls, NAT, ingress and egress, DNS, VPN, private connectivity, and cloud-to-data-center networking.
• Lead private-access technologies and establish SLOs, monitoring, alerting, recovery procedures, and operational standards for critical network services.
• Diagnose and mitigate major networking and infrastructure incidents and drive permanent remediation.
• Develop reusable infrastructure patterns and automation with Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Python, Go, or comparable technologies.
• Partner across platform, systems engineering, IT, InfoSec, SRE, and product engineering; create architecture standards and runbooks, mentor engineers, and influence technical direction.

Requirements

• Deep experience designing and operating complex production cloud networks in at least one major cloud provider, with meaningful experience in a second.
• Strong knowledge of routing, subnetting, segmentation, firewalls, NAT, DNS, VPN, ingress and egress, and private connectivity.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting complex production network and infrastructure failures.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, or comparable infrastructure-as-code technologies.
• Experience building infrastructure automation with Python, Go, or a comparable programming language.
• Strong SRE experience with observability, incident response, root-cause analysis, recovery engineering, and reliability improvement.
• Experience operating Kubernetes or adjacent cloud-platform infrastructure and designing safe infrastructure change and deployment practices.
• Ability to lead architecture decisions across multiple engineering organizations without formal authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including architecture documents, standards, runbooks, and incident reviews; ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction at Principal level.

Nice to have

• Experience across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• AWS Transit Gateway, Cloud WAN, Direct Connect, PrivateLink, Route 53, GCP Cloud Router, Interconnect, Shared VPC, Private Service Connect, Azure Virtual WAN, ExpressRoute, Private Link, or equivalent technologies.
• BGP and hybrid cloud/data-center networking.
• Tailscale, Headscale, WireGuard, NetBox, IPAM/DCIM, Kubernetes CNI, or advanced Kubernetes networking experience.
• Grafana, Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, CloudWatch, PagerDuty, Pingdom, or comparable observability tools.
• IAM and identity technologies such as Okta, Keycloak, FreeIPA, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, JIT access, certificates, secrets management, or privileged-access systems.
• Policy-as-code, infrastructure guardrails, automated deployment controls, or large multi-account, multi-project, hybrid-cloud, or enterprise-scale infrastructure experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with diverse teams and a diverse range of people.
• Salary is based on skills, experience, and geographic location and forms part of the total compensation and benefits package.
• hirify.global has offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Raleigh, Seattle, Boston, London, Lisbon, Bangalore, Dublin, and Kyiv.