Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Location: New York, NY, United States; onsite

Base salary: $215,000–$260,000 per year, depending on skills and experience.

Company

hirify.global builds a secure identity platform that supports safer, easier physical and digital experiences across airports, stadiums, and everyday life.

What you will do

• Set the long-term technical direction and architecture for the cloud platform across AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, networking, and infrastructure as code.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives from RFC and design through rollout and adoption, including production-like staging environments and infrastructure for AI workloads.
• Define infrastructure standards for IaC, safe rollout and rollback, observability, networking, and security.
• Act as a platform product owner by gathering engineering feedback, identifying systemic pain points, and building self-service capabilities.
• Mentor engineers, lead design and incident reviews, and turn operational lessons into lasting improvements.

Requirements

• Deep AWS expertise, including VPC design, routing, Security Groups, load balancing, Route53, IAM, and multi-account, multi-environment platforms.
• Experience running and evolving production EKS clusters, including cluster networking, ingress, service mesh such as Istio, and cluster lifecycle management.
• Experience designing and building production software systems, services, APIs, or internal developer tools in Python, Java, or a similar modern language.
• Strong fundamentals in system design, testing, and maintainable code; ability to build systems rather than only configure them.
• Experience building reusable, well-tested Pulumi modules or equivalent Terraform/CloudFormation infrastructure.
• Experience designing for failure, implementing safe rollouts, leading incident response, and instrumenting systems with observability tools such as Datadog.
• Ability to drive consensus across teams through RFCs and design reviews, communicate trade-offs hirify.globally, and mentor engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience with edge and network security tooling such as Cloudflare or Palo Alto.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with engineering teams focused on making experiences safer and easier.
• Office meals and snacks.
• Learning and development stipend and reimbursement programs.
• Comprehensive healthcare plans, family-building benefits, flexible time off, and free OneMedical memberships for employees and dependents.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match; additional compensation may include annual bonuses, commission, and restricted stock units.

Hiring process

• Communications about the role will come through valid hirify.global channels, such as a verified hirify.global employee or a valid @hirify.globalme.com email address.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified applicants who need them to apply or perform the role.