Senior Software Development Engineer (Cloud Platform)

TL;DR

Senior Software Development Engineer (Cloud Platform): Designing and implementing a core platform for account, access, and cluster lifecycle management for several hundred production services with an accent on cloud infrastructure, platform capabilities, and operational excellence. Focus on designing and delivering a scalable, reliable, secure, observable, and cost-efficient runtime platform using Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, and IaC.

Location: United States - California - San Jose

Salary: $199,000.00–$278,500.00

Company

hirify.global powers global travel with cutting-edge technology and groundbreaking solutions for partners, fostering a diverse and welcoming community.

What you will do

• Design and build scalable features and services for the platform architecture.
• Write high-quality, maintainable code with strong test coverage.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers and conduct code reviews.
• Monitor and support production systems, resolving issues quickly.
• Drive technical improvements in architecture, performance, and tooling.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with distributed cloud services.
• Strong hands-on experience building and running platforms on AWS (EKS, ECS, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, ELB/ALB, Auto Scaling, Route 53, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Cost Explorer).
• Deep hands-on experience with containerization and Kubernetes at scale.
• Practical experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and Helm charts.
• Proven record of contributing production code and platform automation (Go, Python, Java, or similar).
• Experience building applications with resilience, observability, security, and operational automation.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tooling and developer workflows (Spinnaker, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar).
• Demonstrated ability to work in cross-functional technical initiatives and architecture.
• Strong communication skills and experience mentoring engineers.
• Work authorization for the US is required (E-Verify participant).

Nice to have

• Prior platform infrastructure building experience.
• Knowledge of service meshes (Istio, Linkerd, VPC Lattice), API gateways, and advanced networking patterns.
• Experience with security/compliance for cloud environments, secrets management, and policy-as-code.
• Experience with monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Open Telemetry, Jaeger).
• Proven experience with AWS cost optimization strategies and tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Full benefits package including exciting travel perks and generous time-off.
• Parental leave and a flexible work model with cool offices.
• Career development resources to fuel passion for travel.
• Wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership.
• An open culture where everyone belongs and differences are celebrated.

Hiring process

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