Head of Platform Engineering (AI)

Location: Hybrid in Palo Alto, CA, with San Francisco, CA as another location; teams span the US and Asia with a fixed daily overlap.

Company

hirify.global builds AI interfaces and intelligence infrastructure that capture, structure, and use intelligence from conversations for professional productivity. The company is bootstrapped, profitable, and serves more than 3,000,000 users worldwide.

What you will do

• Define and drive the strategy for the Platform Engineering organization across the US and Asia.
• Lead shared services for sign-in and access control, third-party integrations, public APIs and developer tools, billing and payments, file storage and sync, app frameworks, internal tools, and search.
• Build enterprise foundations including SSO, SCIM, fine-grained permissions, audit capabilities, and regional data residency with Infrastructure.
• Run Platform as a product with documented interfaces, internal customers, dated commitments, feedback loops, and a company-wide roadmap.
• Set engineering standards, own reliability, SLOs, on-call, production access, and deployment collaboration with Infrastructure.
• Hire, mentor, and grow senior engineers and team leads while expanding billing and subscription logic within Platform.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading platform or infrastructure-adjacent teams of 15+ engineers.
• Experience building identity, permissions, or API platforms for enterprise SaaS, including areas such as SSO/SAML, SCIM, RBAC/ABAC, multi-tenant workspaces, or public APIs.
• Experience running an internal platform as a product with clear interfaces, SLOs, and customer feedback loops.
• Demonstrated success leading distributed teams across the US and Asia.
• Deep backend expertise in Go, Java, or similar, with strong distributed systems and cloud-native architecture skills using AWS/GCP and Kubernetes.
• Experience building under SOC 2, GDPR, and HIPAA controls and supporting audits.
• Routinely use AI tools in daily work and demonstrate recent usage during the interview.

Nice to have

• Experience with billing and entitlement systems such as Stripe, Metronome, or similar.
• Open-source contributions, conference talks, or technical publications demonstrating recognized technical influence.

Culture & Benefits

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan providing a stake in hirify.global's long-term success.
• Product-driven environment focused on ownership, craftsmanship, velocity, innovation, and customer success.
• Access to AI productivity tools including Gemini, Claude Code, and other frontier AI systems.
• Choice of high-performance laptops and workstation setups, plus hirify.global devices for new hires.
• Annual company offsites and team events, with opportunities for continuous learning and career development.