Senior Software Development Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure)

TL;DR

Senior Software Development Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure): Leading the design, implementation, and operational excellence of cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities with an accent on delivering a scalable, reliable, secure, observable, and cost-efficient runtime platform. Focus on shaping the foundational platform that powers customer-facing services, increasing developer velocity, reducing operational risk, and optimizing cloud spend.

Location: United States - California - San Jose

Salary: $199,000.00–$278,500.00

Company

hirify.global designs cutting-edge technology to power global travel for everyone and create groundbreaking solutions for partners.

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 building and operating distributed cloud services.
• Strong 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 (EKS or comparable).
• 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 in the US is required (E-Verify participant, I-9 confirmation).

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

• Flexible work model with office options.
• Full benefits package including medical/dental/vision.
• Exciting travel perks, generous time-off, and parental leave.
• Wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and IATAN membership.
• Career development resources.
• Open culture where everyone belongs.

Hiring process

• Accommodation requests available for applicants with disabilities.