Senior Software Engineer - Kubernetes

Location: Milan, Italy; hybrid workplace

Salary: €75K–€85K annually

Company

hirify.global is building an AI connectivity layer through a unified API and AI platform for managing, securing, governing, and monetizing API and AI traffic across models and clouds.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain hirify.global Gateway Operator and hirify.global Ingress Controller for reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Build API connectivity features and integrations with Kubernetes and AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Write clean, efficient, well-tested Golang code and improve quality through automated testing and peer reviews.
• Optimize high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems and troubleshoot complex availability and resilience issues.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and DevOps teams on technical designs, architecture, and roadmaps.
• Contribute to open-source projects, share knowledge, and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend development.
• Proficiency in Golang, or strong experience in another modern programming language with the ability to ramp up in Golang.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and the wider cloud-native ecosystem.
• Experience designing and building high-performance, scalable distributed systems.
• Familiarity with APIs, microservices, and networking, including L4/L7 concepts.
• Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and debugging in cloud environments.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Ability to contribute to and navigate open-source projects.
• Strong problem-solving skills, independent work ability in a distributed team, excellent communication, knowledge sharing, and mentoring skills.
• This position is open to candidates located in Milan, Italy.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement in Milan.
• Work on open-source and enterprise-grade API connectivity products used across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, multi-cloud, and service mesh environments.
• Collaboration across engineering, product, and DevOps in a distributed team.