Senior Software Engineer - Kubernetes Platform (Kubernetes)

Location: Hybrid; available in the United States and Canada, including Atlanta, Austin, Denver, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC, and Toronto. Offer-stage candidates may be asked to attend an in-person interview at a hirify.global office or hub.

Estimated annual salary: $194,000–$266,000 for California; $168,000–$231,000 for Colorado; $185,000–$254,000 for New York, Washington, and Washington DC; $150,000–$206,000 for Canada. Compensation may vary by work location.

Company

hirify.global operates a large global network that protects and accelerates Internet applications and supports millions of websites and Internet properties.

What you will do

• Design scalable and resilient Kubernetes platform systems that support company growth.
• Build tools that help engineers deploy and operate internal services running on Kubernetes.
• Partner with application teams to understand their needs and choose effective architectures for the Kubernetes environment.
• Harden the platform against security threats, noisy neighbors, and operational accidents.
• Improve CPU, memory, bandwidth, and storage efficiency, and respond to, resolve, and prevent platform incidents.
• Contribute improvements to open-source projects such as Envoy, Contour, Consul, etcd, cdk8s, Cloudprober, Calico, Ceph, Rook, and KubeVirt.

Requirements

• Experience managing production Kubernetes clusters.
• Experience operating on-premises systems at scale in SRE, systems design, or architecture roles.
• Excellent debugging skills in a Linux environment.
• Knowledge of Linux container runtimes, including isolation, storage, and networking.
• Strong understanding of IP networking, including routing and iptables/nftables.
• Ability to work with Go, TypeScript, and Bash or shell codebases.
• Ability to break down complex problems, evaluate options and trade-offs, build consensus, and drive solutions.

Nice to have

• Experience building platforms across multiple zones and regions for distributed, highly available applications.
• Experience with SaltStack or Ansible configuration management.
• Experience with ArgoCD or Argo Rollouts continuous deployment tooling.
• Operational or administrator experience with etcd, Ceph, Rook, KubeVirt, CNIs, ClusterAPI, Envoy, or Contour.
• Experience using Prometheus, Elasticsearch/Kibana, Vault, Redis, or Consul.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment with flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave.
• Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending, commuter, fertility and family-forming benefits, plus mental health support.
• Disability, life and accident insurance, 401(k), employee stock participation, and global travel medical insurance.
• Parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave programs.
• Employment may be conditioned on authorization to receive technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.