Staff Software Engineer (Deployment)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (Deployment): Building and optimizing deploy and release systems for game development with an accent on centralizing infrastructure capabilities, automation, and operational consistency. Focus on designing scalable platforms, standardizing managed services like databases and storage, and simplifying developer experience across hirify.global.

Location: Must be based in Los Angeles, USA

Salary: $192,500 - $269,400 USD annually

Company

hirify.global is a game developer focused on creating games and experiences that put players first.

What you will do

• Collaborate with game teams to understand and support shared release processes and reusable patterns.
• Design, build, and support centrally managed capabilities such as MySQL database services and object storage.
• Define requirements for automation, lifecycle management, and dependency orchestration across workflows.
• Develop provisioning workflows and framework-level abstractions for simplified developer access to resources.
• Contribute to migration tooling and adoption strategies for onboarding existing workloads into managed capabilities.
• Lead and contribute to cross-team architectural designs and standards related to release, orchestration, and managed infrastructure.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer.
• BS in Computer Science, or equivalent understanding of Computer Science fundamentals.
• 2+ years of experience with configuration management and infrastructure-as-code technologies (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).

Nice to have

• Experience leading technical development in large-scale deployment, release, or managed service systems.
• Experience with modern Release Engineering tooling and deployment automation frameworks (e.g., Spinnaker, ArgoCD).
• Experience building or maintaining deployment workflows for live game services, including blue/green, canary, and rollback strategies.
• Experience designing or integrating managed infrastructure capabilities such as storage services or relational data platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Open paid time off policy and flexible work schedules.
• Medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children.
• 401k with company match.
• Focus on a player-first mission and collaborative team environment.