Infrastructure Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: EMEA — Remote; core hours must overlap with the EU business day.

Company

hirify.global builds and operates blockchain payments infrastructure and the Polygon Open Money Stack for moving money onchain at internet scale.

What you will do

• Operate production Kubernetes environments on GKE, including troubleshooting, maintenance, and reliability improvements.
• Build and maintain Pulumi infrastructure as code, including Pulumi ESC for environments, secrets, and configuration in TypeScript and Python.
• Manage ArgoCD GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines, including diagnosing pipeline-level race conditions.
• Operate GCP services including IAM, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, VPC, and Secret Manager; manage Cloudflare Workers and DNS as code.
• Own secrets and configuration lifecycle, maintain Grafana dashboards and alerts, and clean up stale preview environments.
• Respond to production incidents, review infrastructure pull requests, execute SOC2-driven work, and contribute to systems using Go, TypeScript, and Python.

Requirements

• Production experience operating Kubernetes on GKE in an infrastructure or platform engineering capacity.
• Hands-on Pulumi experience, including Pulumi ESC, with practical proficiency in TypeScript and Python.
• Experience with ArgoCD, GitOps, CI/CD pipelines, and debugging pipeline-level race conditions.
• Strong hands-on experience with GCP IAM, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, VPC, and Secret Manager, including Pub/Sub subscription tuning and alerting.
• Experience managing Cloudflare Workers and DNS as code, including stale preview environment cleanup.
• Experience owning secrets and configuration across services, including provisioning, rotation, naming conventions, and preventing cross-service authentication drift.
• Ability to independently triage and manage production incidents, execute defined infrastructure work without architecture-level hand-holding, and review and approve infrastructure changes through pull requests.
• Working knowledge of Grafana dashboards, alerting, and Grafana Alloy or a comparable agent and collector layer.
• Security and compliance literacy for SOC2-driven infrastructure work and regulated or sensitive-data environments; ability to read Go and work across TypeScript and Python codebases.
• Availability to work core hours overlapping with the EU business day.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first global workforce.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with coverage varying by country and plan.
• Company matching 401(k) with a 3% match for United States employees.
• $1,500 lifetime home office setup allowance, $200 annual book allowance, and $75 monthly internet or phone reimbursement.
• Flexible time off, company-issued laptop, egg-freezing, mental health, and employee wellness benefits.