Principal Engineer, Federal Cloud Platform

TL;DR

Principal Engineer, Federal Cloud Platform: Designing, building, and maintaining shared infrastructure services and platforms for product and application teams with an accent on reliability, availability, and performance. Focus on optimizing cloud environments, implementing event-driven architecture, and managing multi-region cloud environments.

Location: Atlanta / San Francisco

Company

hirify.global is a leader in identity security, delivering an AI-powered platform that governs and secures access to applications, data, and business processes for some of the world’s largest enterprises and government institutions.

What you will do

• Design and maintain shared infrastructure services and platforms.
• Design Continuous Delivery (CD) processes for government deployments.
• Architect and optimize foundational solutions within Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, etc.).
• Design and implement shared Event-Driven Architecture components and messaging platforms.
• Establish and enhance centralized Observability and Monitoring platforms and tools.
• Collaborate with product development teams to understand their infrastructure needs and pain points.

Requirements

• 9+ years of experience in Infrastructure Development, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments.
• Strong programming skills in Go (Golang) and Python.
• Experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure); multi-cloud experience is a plus.
• Experience designing and implementing Event-Driven Architecture and message queuing systems.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience required.

Nice to have

• Experience with FedRAMP compliance and government security requirements.
• Track record of implementing secure CI/CD pipelines in restricted or regulated environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on a mission-critical SaaS platform used by global enterprises.
• Solve complex reliability challenges at scale.
• Influence architecture and engineering culture at a company level.
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and growth opportunities.