Staff Engineer, Site Reliability (AWS)

Location: Remote within the United States; the remote-first team includes members across the U.S. and Canada.

Salary: $226,673–$271,991 starting salary, plus a target 20% annual bonus and competitive equity.

Company

hirify.global is an AI-forward platform for expecting and new families, spanning ecommerce, health, money, media, mobile, and physical showrooms.

What you will do

• Own and evolve AWS infrastructure with Terraform, including EKS clusters, databases, and core services.
• Build tested tools, services, runbooks, self-service workflows, and secure Terraform modules for access, secrets, and workload isolation.
• Improve CI/CD reliability and developer velocity with dependency and container scanning, secret detection, and short-lived deployment credentials.
• Support engineers across local, staging, and production environments and define SLOs and actionable alerting.
• Validate backups, restore procedures, and failover paths through regular recovery tests; lead incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Shape the infrastructure roadmap, lead cross-team platform initiatives, and mentor engineers through rollout and ongoing operation.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering skills with experience shipping and operating production-quality tools or services with tests, code review, and maintainable interfaces.
• Experience designing, implementing, and operating security controls for access, workload identity, secrets, or network isolation.
• Deep hands-on Terraform expertise and proven AWS experience at scale, including EKS, RDS, cloud networking, DNS, CDNs, and load balancers.
• Production Kubernetes operations experience, including debugging complex issues.
• Experience designing and improving CI/CD systems such as CircleCI, GitHub Actions, or similar.
• Strong observability experience with tools such as Datadog, Sentry, PagerDuty, or Cronitor, focused on actionable alerting.
• Experience with on-call and incident management, including post-mortems and follow-up improvements.
• Ability to support developers across local, staging, and production environments.
• Regular use of AI tools to improve work and output, with curiosity about emerging capabilities.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work with team members across the U.S. and Canada; the company meets twice a year.
• AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT are provided and expected as part of daily work.
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, retirement matching, and flexible spending accounts.
• Paid parental leave, PTO, and a company-wide paid week off at the end of the year.
• Remote work stipend plus physical, mental, emotional health, childcare, parenting, and financial-planning benefits.
• Recorded interviews and AI-assisted application review are used with human decision-making; applications and interviews must reflect the candidate's own thinking.