Platform Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure)

TL;DR

Platform Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure): Building and optimizing high-scale, multi-region compute systems for the hirify.global platform with an accent on orchestration, automation, and performance optimization. Focus on designing resilient architectures, ensuring high availability, and managing high-volume workloads.

Location: Fully remote, hiring globally.

Company

hirify.global is a Postgres development platform providing a complete backend solution, including Database, Auth, Storage, and Edge Functions, built by developers for developers.

What you will do

• Build and maintain the hirify.global Cloud offering.
• Design and implement systems to provision, scale, and manage multi-region compute workloads.
• Own the full lifecycle of compute orchestration, from project creation to resource optimization.
• Improve automation and observability across the compute stack for high availability and performance.
• Improve system architecture to reduce costs while balancing security, reliability, and performance.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and resolve escalated support issues.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering skills: Go and Typescript proficiency required.
• At least 7 years of software engineering experience.
• Cloud Infrastructure knowledge: familiarity with AWS constructs is required.
• Past experience using AWS SDKs and IaC tools (Pulumi, Terraform, etc) to build and operate infrastructure is strongly preferred.
• Track record of building reliable, observable, and maintainable systems.
• Ownership mindset to operate independently with high-level guidance.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work model, hiring globally, with a WeWork membership or co-working allowance.
• Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company.
• Tech allowance to set up your ideal work environment.
• Health benefits covering 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents.
• Annual off-sites for company-wide connection and collaboration.
• Flexible, asynchronous work environment with an annual education allowance for professional development.

Hiring process

• Application review.
• Intro Call.
• Up to four interviews with Founders, future teammates, and a cross-functional team member.
• Final decision and offer.