Senior Full Stack Engineer (AWS)

Location: Fully remote, but must be a U.S. citizen and able to work domestically. Must be able to attain a low-level security clearance; current clearance is preferred.

Salary: $140,000–$160,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global delivers software solutions and supports federal digital modernization efforts through its Engineering Excellence Response Team.

What you will do

• Deploy to complex VA engineering issues and embed with system owners to resolve Code Yellows, typically within 90 days.
• Research assigned issues, conduct impact analysis, and define resolution success criteria.
• Build and modify full-stack applications and REST APIs across unfamiliar technology stacks.
• Build CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, DevSecOps practices, and cloud infrastructure as code.
• Instrument systems with SLOs, dashboards, and alerting; troubleshoot incidents and contribute to root cause analysis.
• Produce assessments, runbooks, recommendations, stakeholder follow-up, closeout documentation, and handback materials.

Requirements

• Working fluency in at least one modern backend language, demonstrated range across infrastructure, data, and identity, and the ability to learn the affected system’s stack.
• Strong fundamentals in Git workflows, CI/CD, testing, REST API design, and relational databases.
• Practical cloud experience, preferably AWS, beyond tutorial-level knowledge.
• Ability to work carefully inside another team’s production system while handling change control, ATO, security constraints, and production judgment.
• Ability to become productive quickly in unfamiliar codebases, languages, and domains, with demonstrated experience shipping while being the least experienced person on a codebase.
• Ability to read unfamiliar code without waiting for a tutorial and use AI coding tools deliberately to ramp up.
• Clear written and verbal communication with engineers and non-technical government stakeholders.
• Ability to work across organizational boundaries without direct authority, manage ambiguity, handle shifting priorities, and remain accountable through closeout and handback.
• U.S. citizenship, domestic work eligibility, and ability to attain a low-level security clearance are required.

Nice to have

• VA or federal experience and familiarity with ATO and FedRAMP constraints.
• Terraform, Kubernetes, or OpenShift experience.
• Observability tooling such as Dynatrace, Datadog, or Splunk.
• Identity and access management with Okta, OIDC, or SAML.
• SQL at scale, log analytics, AWS Athena, or similar data experience.
• Accessibility standards experience, including WCAG and Section 508.
• Current security clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work focused on learning, growth, and impactful delivery.
• Small senior response team working alongside system owners on active engineering issues.
• Work spans Terraform, Kubernetes, Dynatrace, AWS, Okta, OIDC, GitHub Actions, Python, SQL, Ruby, DuckDB, and Java/Liferay depending on the affected system.
• Engagements include resolution, follow-up, closeout, reporting, and operational handback rather than only incident remediation.