Senior Platform Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Platform Engineer: Designing and evolving cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform) to ensure reliability, scalability, and maintainability. Focus on improving platform responsiveness, reducing friction for engineering teams, and driving operational excellence.

Location: Fully Remote

Company

hirify.global powers the youth digital ecosystem, combining proprietary ad and gaming products, audience insights, and compliance capabilities to power a better internet for the next generation.

What you will do

• Design, evolve, and optimize cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform) to ensure reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Improve platform responsiveness and reduce friction for engineering teams through better tooling, automation, and guardrails.
• Drive operational excellence by strengthening observability, resilience, and cost-aware engineering practices.
• Actively participate in architectural decision-making.
• Contribute to intelligent automation and self-healing systems.
• Act as a senior escalation point for platform and infrastructure-related production incidents.

Requirements

• Deep expertise and experience in AWS, Kubernetes, and strong Terraform.
• Proven experience owning and delivering technical initiatives end-to-end in a production environment, supporting multiple B2B product engineering teams.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across engineering and support teams.
• A high level of ownership, accountability, and alignment to business outcomes.
• A platform-as-a-product mindset, with a focus on reliability, developer enablement, and continuous improvement.
• Engineering optimization awareness - designing for performance and scale while understanding cost implications.

Nice to have

• Some knowledge or experience of adtech, digital advertising, or martech.

Culture & Benefits

• Making a real-world impact on half a billion users every month.
• Shaping technology at the intersection of law, policy, and innovation.
• Joining a team that values curiosity, creativity, and continuous learning.
• Being part of the #SAFam, a supportive, inclusive, and diverse community.