Software Engineer III (Kubernetes)

Location: Redwood City, California, United States; assigned-office attendance required at least 3 days per week

Base salary: $165,000–$206,000 USD per year; equity and benefits are also available.

Company

hirify.global provides an intelligent content management platform for collaboration, content lifecycle management, security, workflows, and enterprise AI.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain Kubernetes platform components, including clusters, operators, controllers, and admission webhooks.
• Build and operate scalable, highly available Kubernetes environments across hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• Develop internal platform tools and APIs that improve developer productivity and self-service capabilities.
• Implement reliability, security, observability, and cost-optimization practices across the platform.
• Collaborate with application and security teams, contribute to architecture and roadmap discussions, and mentor early-career engineers.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues involving Kubernetes, networking, storage, and distributed systems; participate in the on-call rotation.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes internals and ecosystem tools, including Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, Istio or Linkerd, Calico, and Prometheus.
• Experience managing production Kubernetes clusters on a public cloud provider such as GCP or AWS.
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code tools including Terraform and Ansible, plus CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking, and containerization.
• Passion for open source and keeping current with the Kubernetes and cloud-native community.

Nice to have

• Experience with multi-tenant Kubernetes environments or platform engineering.
• Knowledge of cloud-native security practices, including OPA/Gatekeeper, workload identity, and network policies.
• Familiarity with cloud cost-management strategies such as autoscaling, rightsizing, and spot or preemptible instances.

Culture & Benefits

• In-person collaboration is required, with at least 3 days per week in the assigned office.
• Work in an AI-first environment that encourages using AI to make faster and smarter decisions.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and remain available to respond to and triage issues while on call.
• The role is eligible for equity and benefits.
• hirify.global is committed to diversity, inclusion, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodations during the application and interview process.