Senior Software Engineer - Virtual Machines (RD222)

Location: Remote, United States; U.S. citizenship required; 5–10% travel expected.

Salary: $148,750–$201,250 USD annually.

Company

hirify.global delivers secure software integration, delivery, and cloud-native solutions for U.S. government defense and civil agencies.

What you will do

• Build Kubernetes tooling and APIs for orchestrating and managing virtual machine workloads in the UDS platform.
• Develop tools to inspect, convert, prepare, and package VM images for disconnected delivery.
• Integrate VMs with UDS networking, observability, and security capabilities.
• Create workflows for VM inventory, status, power controls, console access, storage, networking, and image distribution.
• Own the design, implementation, testing, and delivery of complex software features while improving reliability, security, performance, observability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with Product, UX, and Mission Heroes; review code, mentor teammates, document decisions, and help establish engineering practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Go or another modern programming language, with interest in developing Go-based systems.
• Experience designing and building software that interacts with Kubernetes or other distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of APIs, system design, and software architecture.
• Experience developing backend services, controllers, operators, or developer tooling.
• Familiarity with Linux systems, containers, and operating system concepts.
• Experience building, testing, and operating production software.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, evaluate technical tradeoffs, independently drive complex work to completion, and debug across multiple system boundaries.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including influencing technical direction and mentoring engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience with KubeVirt, QEMU/KVM, or other virtualization technologies.
• Experience developing Kubernetes operators, controllers, or custom resource definitions.
• Experience configuring, managing, or troubleshooting Windows virtual machines.
• Familiarity with VM image formats, conversion, migration, and lifecycle management.
• Experience with Kubernetes networking and storage, or building CLI tools in Go.
• Familiarity with Zarf, OCI artifacts, or software packaging and distribution.
• Experience in air-gapped, disconnected, or regulated environments.
• Contributions to Kubernetes, KubeVirt, or other CNCF open-source projects.
• Experience building security-focused software or integrating identity, access control, and observability platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-focused work supporting defense and civil agencies and secure cloud-native software delivery.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with company-paid premiums, plus HSA, life, and disability insurance.
• 401(k), company stock options, and a home office budget.
• Flexible Time Off, federal holidays, Thanksgiving and Christmas/New Year’s leave, and paid parental leave.
• Reimbursement for approved training and subscriptions, plus conference travel, lodging, and fees.