Senior Software Engineer (Kubernetes/Cloud Platform)

Location: Remote, United States

Base salary: USD $127,800.00–$339,000.00 per year.

Company

hirify.global operates an AI-powered developer platform used by developers and organizations worldwide.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate Kubernetes-based platform systems supporting hirify.global production services.
• Improve reliability, scalability, operability, capacity efficiency, and cluster lifecycle management across the Kubernetes/Hubbernetes fleet.
• Drive cross-team platform initiatives including AKS migration, fleet management, control-plane reliability, and capacity management.
• Partner with service owners, infrastructure teams, and engineering leaders on migration paths, operational standards, and platform improvements.
• Debug complex production issues across Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, Linux, containers, networking, observability, and distributed systems.
• Build automation and guardrails, mentor engineers, contribute to technical direction, and participate in on-call and incident response.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python; or an Associate's Degree plus 5+ years, Bachelor's Degree plus 4+ years, Master's Degree plus 2+ years, a relevant doctorate, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience with large-scale Kubernetes fleet operations, cluster lifecycle management, capacity management, or workload migration.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and several years of hands-on experience building or operating Kubernetes and cloud-native platform systems in production.
• Strong written communication skills and the ability to work in a distributed, asynchronous environment.

Nice to have

• Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service or operating Kubernetes on Azure.
• Experience with platform engineering, developer platforms, internal infrastructure products, or infrastructure-as-a-service systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes controllers, operators, CRDs, admission control, scheduling, autoscaling, service mesh, or multi-cluster networking.
• Experience improving reliability through SLOs, observability, incident response, automation, and operational readiness practices.
• Experience driving senior-level technical projects with high ambiguity and cross-team impact.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first environment with distributed teams and asynchronous communication.
• Participation in on-call and incident response is required for team-owned systems.
• Eligible roles may receive benefits, annual bonuses, stock, and learning and growth opportunities.
• hirify.global promotes customer focus, ownership, inclusivity, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Hiring process

• The position will remain open for at least 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.