Senior Python Developer (Platform/Security)

TL;DR

Senior Python Developer (Platform/Security): Designing, building, and operating a centralized email protection platform for hosting providers with an accent on reliability, scalability, and operational safety. Focus on cloud-native infrastructure, deployment workflows, and incident response for distributed systems under real-world traffic and abuse conditions.

Location: Fully remote, worldwide

Company

hirify.global is a global remote-first company focused on delivering high-volume, low-cost Linux infrastructure and security products.

What you will do

• Design and implement core platform components with emphasis on reliability, scalability, and operational safety.
• Build and maintain cloud-native infrastructure, including networking, compute, and service orchestration.
• Own deployment workflows, warm-up processes, rollout strategies, and rollback mechanisms for production environments.
• Establish and maintain platform standards for monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response.
• Develop and enforce guardrails to reduce operational risk from abuse, misconfiguration, or traffic anomalies.
• Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and KPIs related to uptime, latency, and platform health.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or SRE-adjacent roles.
• 5+ years of experience with Python.
• Solid experience working with GNU/Linux and Bash/Shell scripting.
• Strong experience operating distributed systems in production.
• Hands-on expertise with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Practical experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).

Nice to have

• Experience with Go.
• Experience with proxies, load balancers, or edge platforms.
• Background in abuse prevention, rate limiting, or reputation-based control systems.
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with flexible working hours.
• Paid 24 days of vacation, 10 national holidays, and unlimited sick leaves.
• Compensation for private medical insurance.
• Co-working and gym/sports reimbursement.
• Budget for education.
• Opportunity to receive a reward for the most innovative idea that the company can patent.