Sr. Platform Engineer

Location: New York, United States; hybrid work mode

Salary: $147,000–$170,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is a global reinsurance company with more than 40,000 employees in over 50 locations, using data, technology, and teams to drive innovation in the insurance industry.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate a secure, reliable internal platform for business applications and machine learning workloads at scale.
• Develop self-service golden paths through standardized APIs, templates, automation, and reusable infrastructure building blocks.
• Build and evolve Kubernetes platform primitives, including networking, ingress, secrets management, identity integration, policy controls, and multi-tenancy.
• Maintain cloud infrastructure and platform-level CI/CD using Infrastructure as Code, release automation, and secure SDLC practices.
• Establish observability, SLOs, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement practices.
• Partner with application teams, guide technical decisions, mentor engineers, and improve developer experience and time-to-production.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating platform services with Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, or cloud-provider-native tooling using modular and reusable approaches.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift, including networking, ingress, service discovery, storage, RBAC, admission control, and multi-tenancy.
• Experience standardizing CI/CD for multi-team environments, ideally with GitHub Actions and Argo CD, including release strategies and deployment automation.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider: Azure, GCP, or AWS.
• Strong networking and security foundations, including DNS, TLS, load balancing, routing, private connectivity, identity, secrets, scanning, signing, SBOMs, and policy enforcement.
• Strong software engineering and internal automation experience, ideally with Go, Python, or TypeScript; experience with Docker, registries, and image build pipelines.
• Excellent Linux knowledge, operational troubleshooting skills, and experience leading incident response through triage, mitigation, coordination, and post-incident improvements.
• Deep knowledge of observability practices and tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog, plus strong analytical, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular hybrid work in New York, United States.
• Health, prescription, vision, dental, life, disability, and supplemental insurance options for employees and eligible dependents.
• 401(k) plan with up to a 6% employer match and eligibility for a yearly bonus.
• Paid time off starting at 24 days annually, family-care leave, and paid community volunteering time.
• Health and wellness programs, tuition assistance, educational achievement bonuses, and a corporate matching gifts program.
• Inclusive workplace focused on diversity, inclusion, belonging, professional development, innovation, and high performance.

Hiring process

• Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted directly.