Software Development Engineer Iii

TL;DR

Software Development Engineer (Platform): Designing, implementing, and ensuring operational excellence for cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities with an accent on scalability, reliability, security, and cost-efficiency. Focus on runtime platform (Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, IaC, cloud services) optimization to increase developer velocity and reduce operational risk.

Location: United States - California - San Jose

Salary: $157,500.00 to $220,500.00

Company

hirify.global brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere.

What you will do

• Design and build scalable features and services for our platform architecture.
• Write high‑quality, maintainable code with strong test coverage.
• Monitor and support production systems, resolving issues quickly.
• Drive technical improvements in software performance, and tooling.

Requirements

• 5+ years professional software engineering experience 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).
• Hands-on experience with containerization and Kubernetes at scale (EKS or comparable).
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and Helm charts.
• Proven record of contributing production code and platform automation (languages such as Go, Python, Java, or similar).
• Experience building applications with resilience, observability, security and operational automation.

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).

Culture & Benefits

• Full benefits package, including exciting travel perks.
• Generous time-off, parental leave, and a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices).
• Career development resources to fuel passion for travel.
• Wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent ( IATAN ) membership.
• Inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce.