Senior Platform Engineer (AWS/Kubernetes)

Location: Remote / Columbus, OH / Chicago, IL / New York City, NY

Salary: $160,000–$200,000 per year base salary, plus an annual performance bonus expected to be 7.5% of base salary.

Company

hirify.global builds a connected commerce operations suite for merchants, including returns, exchanges, order tracking, fraud prevention, and data-driven commerce tools used by more than 5,000 brands.

What you will do

• Build self-service workflows for infrastructure provisioning, service delivery, and failure recovery.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment checks, progressive delivery, and automated rollback.
• Simplify AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure while balancing reliability, security, cost, and maintenance.
• Strengthen observability, alerting, SLOs, capacity planning, and incident-driven reliability improvements.
• Develop tooling, reusable context, environments, and access controls for agent-assisted engineering.
• Partner across product, data, security, and engineering teams; investigate cross-layer performance issues, document decisions, coach teammates, and participate in platform on-call and incident response.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or related infrastructure work, or equivalent demonstrated depth.
• Deep hands-on Kubernetes experience, including configuration, secrets, deployments, scaling, and production troubleshooting.
• Experience building and operating AWS infrastructure for production systems with meaningful traffic and availability requirements.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD experience, including Terraform and GitLab CI or comparable tools.
• Experience using metrics, logs, traces, and alerting to understand system behavior.
• Ability to write, read, debug, and maintain automation and tooling, and investigate issues across application and infrastructure boundaries.
• Examples of making delivery safer, reducing operational toil, or enabling engineers to work independently.
• Clear written communication and experience leading technical work across teams without formal authority.

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud security, least-privilege access, secrets management, SOC 2, or GDPR.
• Application performance tuning, PHP/Laravel, database operations, or infrastructure for AI agents.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote workplace with a hands-on individual contributor role and opportunities for technical influence.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance; flexible PTO; company holidays; sick and safe leave; and parental leave.
• 401(k), monthly wellness benefit, home workstation benefit, phone/internet benefit, and equity.
• Annual performance bonus expected to be 7.5% of base salary.
• Culture combines high empathy with high standards, authenticity, resilience, learning, and shared ownership.