Staff Software Engineer - Cloud Services (AWS)

Location: Canada; remote

Company

hirify.global develops data-first contract lifecycle management software with AI capabilities, integrations, and a no-code agreement platform.

What you will do

• Own the architecture of critical AWS cloud service domains, including scalability, reliability, security, cost efficiency, and technical debt management.
• Define service boundaries, APIs, data contracts, integration patterns, and cloud-native designs for resilient distributed services.
• Lead architecture improvements, technical roadmaps, disaster recovery planning, reliability targets, and operational readiness with Engineering and CloudOps teams.
• Advance infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, AI-assisted engineering, and responsible AI-tool usage across the cloud SDLC.
• Improve developer experience through local development, deployment workflows, operational tooling, documentation, and runbooks.
• Mentor engineers, influence technical direction across teams, and communicate architecture, risk, reliability, and strategy to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in computer science, information systems, software, electrical, or electronics engineering, or a comparable field.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years at staff level.
• Strong proficiency in Python and working experience with Java for backend and cloud-based services.
• Deep experience designing, building, and operating scalable enterprise-grade applications on AWS.
• Experience owning and evolving complex, distributed, long-lived cloud platform architecture.
• Experience leading service refactoring, software architecture modernization, and platform evolution while maintaining delivery velocity.
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation, and with designing and evolving CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of observability in distributed systems, including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Proficiency with AI-assisted development processes and tools.
• Ability to reason holistically about distributed systems, solve complex problems, make sound architectural and operational trade-offs, influence technical direction, and communicate clearly.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote full-time role supporting hirify.global’s cloud services organization.
• Work environment focused on inclusion, authenticity, employee experience, and healthy work-life balance.
• Floating holidays and a quarterly no-questions-asked wellness day.
• Employee Resource Groups are supported.
• Background checks are conducted every three years or as needed for individuals in this role.

Hiring process

• Applications are reviewed as submitted, with no application deadline.
• Accommodation is available during the recruiting process upon request.