Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - Implementation (DevSecOps)

Location: Remote, near one of the approved U.S. hiring hubs: DC/Maryland/Virginia; Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC; Denver/Colorado Springs, CO; or Dallas/Fort Worth, TX. U.S. citizenship is required. Ability to travel up to 25%.

Base salary: $160,000–$190,000 per year, plus potential equity awards and discretionary bonuses.

Company

hirify.global Systems is a public benefit corporation developing Game Warden, a fully managed and compliant DevSecOps platform that helps government customers accredit SaaS applications for U.S. national security missions.

What you will do

• Own the technical strategy and execution for complex, high-visibility customer deployments, including first-of-kind application onboardings and multi-agency or multi-enclave rollouts.
• Lead onboarding of customer applications into Game Warden for security scanning, including legacy architectures, unusual dependency chains, and non-standard compliance postures.
• Architect and configure complex cloud deployments across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Own and improve onboarding and customer support processes through tooling, documentation, automation, and standardized technical playbooks.
• Resolve escalations, coach Implementation Engineers, and serve as the senior technical authority for difficult deployment problems.
• Partner with Product, Platform Engineering, Sales, senior customer stakeholders, and program managers to translate implementation insights and warfighter constraints into platform improvements and engineering requirements.

Requirements

• 8–10+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, or implementation/deployment engineering, with ownership of complex production-grade deployments.
• Advanced expertise in Linux installation, troubleshooting, and maintenance, including hands-on hardening and support of on-premises hardware at scale.
• Deep knowledge of DevSecOps tools and practices, including building or maturing implementation and onboarding processes.
• Strong communication under pressure and experience leading technical discussions with senior customer stakeholders during high-stakes deployments.
• Demonstrated mentorship and technical leadership of engineers, including serving as an escalation point for difficult problems.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving integration friction between customer legacy systems and modern software stacks, including judgment about when to challenge customer architecture and when to engineer around constraints.
• DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance eligibility and U.S. citizenship are required.
• Ability to travel up to 25%.

Nice to have

• Active or interim security clearance.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, and Azure deployment architecture and configuration.
• Potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work available near an approved hiring hub, with flexible paid time off and federal holidays off.
• 100% healthcare, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k) with a 3% company contribution.
• Equity incentive plan, referral bonus, and tech and office supplies stipend.
• Annual professional development stipend, parental leave, One Medical membership, mental health resources, and family planning assistance.
• Purpose-driven work supporting U.S. national security missions in an inclusive, team-oriented environment.

Hiring process

• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and the position remains open until filled.
• Applicants must complete the online application form.