Lead Software Engineer (Platform Engineering)

Location: Bloomington, Illinois; Dunwoody, Georgia; Richardson, Texas; or Tempe, Arizona, United States. Hybrid arrangement with approximately 40% in-office time each month beginning in late 2027. Applicants must be eligible to work lawfully in the United States immediately; visa sponsorship is not available.

Salary: $120,000–$150,000 per year, plus potential yearly incentive pay of up to 15% of base salary.

Company

hirify.global is modernizing its technology platform to strengthen customer experiences and support software delivery at enterprise scale.

What you will do

• Design and build Kubernetes-native automation in Go, including custom controllers and Crossplane compositions for GitHub organizational resources, repositories, teams, rulesets, and enterprise settings.
• Own GitHub Enterprise Cloud governance, enterprise policy enforcement, GitHub Apps, and GitHub Hosted Actions Compute.
• Build automated tooling to migrate repositories, access, and settings from on-premises GitLab to GitHub Enterprise Cloud at scale.
• Develop onboarding tooling, guides, and automation to help engineering teams adopt new branching, deployment, and platform practices.
• Enable versioned, reconciled, and auditable GitOps workflows across the platform.
• Collaborate with engineers, contribute to architectural decisions, and improve the end-to-end developer experience.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience building production software in Go, such as a CLI, Kubernetes controller or operator, API service, or similar, with knowledge of Go idioms and best practices.
• Understanding of Kubernetes Resource Model concepts, including CRDs, controllers, reconciliation loops, RBAC, and admission webhooks.
• Hands-on experience with Crossplane Compositions, XRDs, Managed Resources, and Providers, or strong Kubernetes operator experience with the ability to learn Crossplane quickly.
• Ability to communicate effectively, collaborate with teammates, take ownership, and support other engineers.
• Immediate legal eligibility to work in the United States.

Nice to have

• GitHub Enterprise Cloud and Git experience, including enterprise administration, GitHub Apps, REST or GraphQL API automation, git workflows, and branching strategies.
• GitLab administration or API automation and experience migrating repositories and teams between source-control platforms at scale.
• Red Hat OpenShift patterns and workload deployment on managed Kubernetes.
• AWS experience with API Gateway, Lambda, ECS/Fargate, IAM, S3, Secrets Manager, and VPC networking.
• Experience with Argo CD, Flux, or similar deployment and GitOps tooling.
• Observability experience with structured logging, metrics, distributed traces, Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry, or Grafana.
• RESTful or GraphQL API design experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on hard, visible platform-engineering problems affecting how thousands of engineers deliver software.
• Greenfield modernization work with opportunities to influence architecture and platform direction.
• Hybrid work combining office and home working.
• Health, vision, dental, telemedicine, mental-health, and wellbeing programs.
• Training, tuition assistance, mentoring, employee resource groups, paid time off, parental leave, and community-service days.
• Annual raise and bonus eligibility, retirement plan with company contributions of up to 7% of salary, and financial coaching.