Senior Platform Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Platform Engineer (Backend): Building and evolving internal developer platform capabilities supporting CI/CD, environment management, observability, and secure infrastructure with an accent on developer experience and platform reliability. Focus on designing and operating reliable distributed systems, eliminating developer friction, and driving engineering excellence across multiple teams.

Location: Onsite in Austin, Texas, United States

Company

hirify.global is a leading developer and publisher of digital games on mobile and web platforms, known for popular free-to-play games including social casino and casual games.

What you will do

• Build and evolve the Internal Developer Platform supporting CI/CD, environment management, observability, and secure infrastructure.
• Identify and eliminate developer friction through proactive investigation and business insight-driven solutions.
• Develop shared backend services, SDKs, and UI components to accelerate feature delivery.
• Drive engineering excellence by championing reliability, simplicity, automation, and maintainability.
• Build relationships across teams to understand requirements and gather feedback for continuous improvement.
• Operate and maintain platform services including SLIs/SLOs and participate in on-call rotations.
• Influence technical direction, architectural decisions, and tooling standards for the developer platform.

Requirements

• Location: Must be onsite in Austin, Texas, United States
• 5-10+ years of software engineering experience with platform, infrastructure, or DevOps focus.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language: C#, Go, Python, or Typescript.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native infrastructure (AWS preferred) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams.
• Passion for developer experience and platform as product mindset.

Nice to have

• Experience working with game development or creative product teams.
• Knowledge of security, compliance, or auditability for internal platforms.
• Contributions to internal developer portals or platform engineering initiatives at scale.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative and empowered product teams with autonomy to make decisions and experiment.
• Focus on continual skill and culture improvement within the team and company.
• Supportive environment encouraging innovation, risk-taking, and ownership.