Senior Platform Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Platform Engineer (DevOps): Building and enhancing the internal technology platform, treating it as a product for development teams with an accent on automation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Focus on DevOps principles, SRE mindset, and ensuring high reliability, scalability, and performance.

Location: Must be based in Germany, Ireland, Poland, or Portugal

Salary: €95K – €125K

Company

hirify.global is the CRM built for the AI era, designed for ambitious go-to-market teams.

What you will do

• Build and maintain platform infrastructure using declarative IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi).
• Act as first-line responders for critical system incidents, ensuring rapid triage, diagnosis, and resolution.
• Implement, maintain, and evolve fully automated CI and CD pipelines.
• Implement and manage robust systems for monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing.
• Proactively manage infrastructure capacity to meet or exceed Service Level Objectives.

Requirements

• Must have: Demonstrable experience applying DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to manage, monitor, and scale production systems.
• Must have: Deep understanding of the SRE mindset, including SLO/SLA creation and monitoring, error budget management, toil reduction, and post-incident review.
• Must have: Expertise in one or more major public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Must have: In-depth knowledge of container technologies, specifically Docker, and extensive experience orchestrating them at scale using Kubernetes (K8s).
• Must have: Proficiency in one or more modern software languages (e.g., Typescript, Go, Python, Rust).
• Must have: Proven experience developing robust, maintainable, and well-tested automation scripts, services, and pipelines.

Nice to have

• Proven ability to drive cultural and process change that fosters a collaborative approach between development and operations teams.
• Proven background in implementing and managing centralised logging solutions or similar platforms (e.g., Splunk, DataDog).
• Familiarity with distributed tracing tools (e.g., Jaeger, Zipkin) and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solutions.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity in an early-stage tech company.
• Apple hardware.
• Team off-sites in fun places (Barcelona, Lisbon, Malta, and Split so far).