Senior Platform Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Platform Engineer: Responsible for building and operating the infrastructure that enables product teams to move fast, safely, and reliably with an accent on evolving cloud-native architectures and designing internal platforms. Focus on debugging across infrastructure layers, understanding how distributed systems behave under load, and automation of manual operational work.

Location: 100% remote and open to candidates based in Germany, Spain, Portugal, or the U.K.

Company

hirify.global is focused on making nutrition more accessible and successful for millions of users in over 150 countries.

What you will do

• Operate and evolve the Kubernetes landscape (AWS EKS and on-prem via Rancher).
• Maintain and modernize self-hosted relational databases (MariaDB and PostgreSQL).
• Design internal platform abstractions that reduce cognitive load for Backend and Data teams.
• Automate manual operational processes and improve deployment consistency.
• Improve CI/CD architecture and release safety.
• Strengthening observability and monitoring across services.

Requirements

• Strong Kubernetes administration and troubleshooting experience (EKS preferred).
• Experience operating production systems in hybrid environments (AWS and self-hosted infrastructure).
• Solid Linux administration and deep debugging skills.
• Experience with relational databases in production (MariaDB and/or PostgreSQL, ideally self-hosted).
• Experience designing or maintaining CI/CD architecture and automation.
• Observability experience (Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, or similar).

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first culture, working 100% from home with options to join a co-working space or to work from abroad for several weeks.
• International team with English as the company language.
• Access to state-of-the-art technical equipment.
• 30 days of paid vacation.
• High-impact work environment with short decision-making processes.
• Work culture characterized by focus and efficiency.