Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure (AWS/Kubernetes)

Location: Remote - US

Salary: $214,000–$285,000 per year

Company

hirify.global builds a data and analytics platform that helps people explore data using natural language, with or without code, on trusted context.

What you will do

• Own infrastructure projects from definition through delivery across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and multi-tenant and single-tenant environments.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines for speed, cost efficiency, and flexibility.
• Automate setup, teardown, partial teardown, and updates for single-tenant stacks.
• Operate and scale PostgreSQL, including performance, capacity, migrations, and production reliability.
• Improve infrastructure cost visibility, security posture, workload and container isolation, and compliance readiness.
• Build customer-facing infrastructure capabilities including private connectivity, customer-defined networking, and easier single-tenant operations.

Requirements

• 5+ years building and operating production infrastructure, including on-call responsibilities.
• Strong Kubernetes operations knowledge, including scheduling, networking, and failure modes.
• Solid AWS fundamentals, including EKS, RDS, VPC networking, and IAM.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform.
• Ability to read and write enough application code to modify a pipeline, controller, or service.
• Ability to turn vague, long-standing problems into shippable solutions independently.
• Clear technical writing, including design documents and runbooks for engineers outside infrastructure.
• Ability to improve the people around you, regardless of formal title.
• Depth in at least one of networking, databases, or deployment systems.

Nice to have

• Networking depth including VPC design, PrivateLink, peering, DNS, TLS and certificate management, or agentic sandboxing.
• Database depth with PostgreSQL at scale, including replication, tuning, connection pooling, major version upgrades, and migrations under load.
• Deployment-systems depth including CI/CD platform ownership, build performance and cost, release management, and artifact management.

Culture & Benefits

• Market-benchmarked salary and equity.
• Comprehensive health benefits and flexible paid time off.
• High-agency environment focused on shipping quickly.
• Office hubs in San Francisco and New York, with remote team members throughout the US and UK.