Staff Software Engineer (DevOps)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (DevOps): Responsible for elevating engineering productivity by designing, standardizing, and evolving CI/CD platforms and infrastructure workflows with an accent on modern CI/CD systems and infrastructure as code using Terraform. Focus on defining standards, reducing friction in the software delivery lifecycle, and creating self-service infrastructure patterns that scale across teams.

Location: Hybrid in San Jose, California

Salary: $164,000 - $246,000

Company

hirify.global is the leading Accounting Transformation Platform in accounting workflow automation created by actual former accountants for accountants.

What you will do

• Define and execute the long-term strategy for CI/CD across the organization, with primary ownership of our GitHub Actions ecosystem.
• Lead the design and evolution of infrastructure modules and patterns built in Terraform.
• Instrument the software development lifecycle and use data to drive improvements in deployment frequency, lead time, failure rates, and recovery time.
• Set CI/CD and infrastructure standards across multiple product lines.
• Embed observability, testing, and rollback strategies directly into pipelines.
• Mentor senior engineers and DevOps practitioners in CI/CD architecture and infrastructure as code.

Requirements

• 8–10+ years of experience spanning software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or developer productivity.
• Deep hands-on expertise with CI/CD systems, especially GitHub Actions (enterprise-scale implementation preferred).
• Strong experience building scalable infrastructure using Terraform (modules, workspaces, state management, policy integration).
• Strong experience working within the AWS ecosystem (e.g., VPC, ECS, EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, CloudWatch).
• Experience designing secure, scalable pipeline architectures (artifact management, secrets handling, OIDC, ephemeral environments).
• Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams or domains.

Nice to have

• AI-first thinking applied to pipeline optimization, incident analysis, and developer feedback loops.
• Strong experience with monitoring, metrics, and visualization tools (e.g CloudWatch, Grafana)

Culture & Benefits

• Unlimited Vacation.
• Competitive and elaborate Benefits Package including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Family Forming benefits.
• hirify.global values our Total Rewards.