Staff DevOps Engineer (AI)

Location: Mountain View, California, United States; hybrid work with two days per week in the office

Salary: $210,000–$257,000 annually, depending on location, qualifications, experience, and relevant skills.

Company

hirify.global provides an AI security and governance platform with network-level visibility, intent-aware policies, and protection for enterprise AI activity.

What you will do

• Design and operate 50+ EKS/GKE clusters, multi-tenant compute, autoscaling, and cluster lifecycle management across AWS and GCP.
• Own Terraform infrastructure-as-code across multi-account, multi-region environments spanning 200+ repositories and services.
• Architect and operate CI/CD pipelines using Harness, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD, including supply-chain security, SBOMs, and progressive delivery.
• Build large-scale metrics, logging, and distributed-tracing systems with OpenTelemetry across all clusters.
• Implement DevSecOps controls including secret management, image signing, policy-as-code, vulnerability management, and compliance automation.
• Create AI/LLM-powered tools for platform operations, incident triage, drift detection, and CI/CD automation; operate SQL and NoSQL platforms with disaster recovery and schema lifecycle management.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE in cloud-native SaaS environments.
• Expert AWS experience with EKS, RDS/Aurora, IAM, VPC, and cost management, plus solid GCP experience.
• Production Terraform experience at scale, including modules, state management, drift detection, and multi-account patterns.
• Advanced Kubernetes expertise covering RBAC, network policy, GitOps with ArgoCD or Flux, operators, and resource management.
• Strong Go and/or Python skills for building and shipping production-grade internal tooling.
• Hands-on experience building tools with AI/LLM APIs integrated into engineering workflows.
• Production SQL proficiency and experience operating NoSQL platforms.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale, multi-cluster observability solutions.
• DevSecOps experience with vulnerability management, software supply-chain security, and SOC 2 / ISO 27001 compliance frameworks.
• Ability to scope ambiguous problems, work independently, and drive solutions through delivery.

Nice to have

• Background in regulated industries such as SaaS-based fintech, healthtech, or AI infrastructure.
• GPU infrastructure or AI model-serving experience with vLLM or SageMaker.
• Open-source development projects used by others.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment with two office days per week.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan.
• Competitive salary and equity.
• Professional development opportunities and generous vacation policy.