Senior Systems Engineer - Traffic Management (Kubernetes)

Location: Hybrid in Miami or Palo Alto, United States; office attendance required 2–3 times per week.

Compensation range: $124k–$156k.

Company

hirify.global provides digital financial products and services to more than 140 million customers, using proprietary technology and data at scale to promote financial access, advancement, and transparency.

What you will do

• Deliver end-to-end milestones for the traffic platform, from problem definition through rollout and post-release follow-up.
• Design pragmatic solutions balancing reliability, performance, security, and implementation effort.
• Build failure-aware systems with appropriate testing, observability, incident response, and preventive follow-up.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and partner teams to define technical plans, priorities, and milestones.
• Use AI tools and agents to investigate issues, write and review code, explore solutions, and automate repetitive work.
• Maintain documentation and runbooks, support knowledge sharing, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call operations.

Requirements

• Experience operating large-scale, high-performance synchronous distributed systems in the cloud, including load balancers, reverse proxies, TLS/mTLS, routing, and metrics, logs, and traces.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes infrastructure, manifests, routing and deployment strategies, and DNS configuration.
• Daily use of AI tools and agents in engineering workflows, with validation of outputs and consistent attention to quality and safety.
• Experience leading infrastructure platform projects from design through production launch, including milestones, stakeholder coordination, risk management, trade-offs, and post-rollout stabilization.
• Experience with Istio or other service-mesh technologies such as Linkerd, Envoy-based solutions, or legacy stacks such as Finagle.
• Production experience with AWS networking and compute primitives, including ALB/NLB, security groups, VPC, Route 53, and IAM.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Pulumi or Terraform.
• Experience building platform capabilities, shared libraries, abstractions, SDKs, or internal tooling for product engineers.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model with office attendance at least twice weekly on strategic collaboration days.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance.
• Extended maternity and paternity leave, mental health and wellness assistance, and work-from-home allowance.
• Learning and language programs through Nucleo and NuLanguage.
• 401(k), health savings account, flexible spending account, equity opportunity, and relocation assistance if applicable.