Staff Platform Engineer - Infra + DevOps

Location: Remote-first, must work from anywhere in the U.S.; occasional visits to satellite offices may be required. Office hubs are in the San Francisco Bay Area and Austin, Texas.

Salary: $194,400–$216,000 USD annually.

Company

hirify.global develops the Honor Care Platform and services that support in-home care for older adults, including its Home Instead network.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and foundational platform services.
• Build and manage infrastructure, core services, deployment pipelines, environments, and supporting systems for engineering teams.
• Develop foundational patterns and libraries for Python applications spanning API services and event processing.
• Automate code lifecycle management from development through production, including promotion and configuration management.
• Improve observability, application performance, reliability, and developer experience across multiple environments.
• Advise cross-functional teams on platform abstractions, architecture, operational practices, and infrastructure security.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of professional experience on a platform engineering team within a product-centric company.
• 5+ years of experience designing and implementing foundational patterns and libraries for Python applications.
• 3+ years of experience with infrastructure as code tools such as CDK, Terraform, and Ansible.
• 3+ years working with production systems running on Kubernetes and 3+ years of professional cloud engineering experience, preferably with AWS.
• 3+ years developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins and ArgoCD.
• Proficiency in scripting, automation, and software engineering concepts, including Bash, Python, or Go.
• Experience managing and creating Helm charts, networking security, secret management, and tools such as Vault or AWS SSM.
• Experience with observability tools such as CloudWatch and DataDog, plus infrastructure security reviews and compliance frameworks.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills; a strategic, product-first, customer-focused approach; and interest in mentoring talent.

Nice to have

• Experience with RPC architecture and multiple distributed architecture patterns.
• Experience in a technology startup and with evolving platform maturity.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work model with virtual interview and onboarding; occasional in-person collaboration is available at U.S. office hubs.
• Equity, competitive compensation, comprehensive medical, mental health, dental, vision, and life insurance, including zero-cost employee plans.
• Employer-matched 401(k) with up to a 4% match.
• Flexible PTO with manager approval, mental health and wellness programs, and a monthly home-office stipend.
• People-centric culture focused on integrity, compassion, excellence, diverse representation, and equal employment opportunity.