Platform Engineering Leader

TL;DR

Platform Engineering Leader (DevOps): Responsible for devising, implementing, and improving processes and platforms that help engineers succeed in making hirify.global the best Identity Security Platform possible with an accent on cloud architecture, platform tooling, and automation. Focus on defining and executing the technical and organizational strategy for hirify.global’s internal platform, balancing scale, simplicity, and developer empowerment.

Location: Atlanta / San Francisco

Company

hirify.global is a company that provides an Identity Security Platform.

What you will do

• Collaborate with Engineering Excellence, Quality Engineering, InfoSec, Product, and Design to synthesize requirements and prioritize impactful investments.
• Define and execute the technical and organizational strategy for hirify.global’s internal platform, balancing scale, simplicity, and developer empowerment.
• Define and execute a cohesive strategy for hirify.global’s multi-cluster, cross-region compute and infrastructure platforms that prioritizes simplicity, performance, security, and scale.
• Partner with engineering and product leaders to deeply understand developer needs and drive platform improvements that boost development velocity.
• Shape platform abstractions that streamline compute scaling, infrastructure provisioning, and network management for engineering teams.
• Invest in your team’s growth through mentorship, clear expectations, and opportunities for technical and leadership development.

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing or overseeing multiple technical domains.
• 9+ years of hands-on experience building and operating distributed systems or infrastructure in a cloud-native environment.
• Experience working in a startup environment desired.
• Proven ability to lead multiple technical domains (e.g., compute, networking, automation) under a unified platform strategy.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to collaborate and build relationships across organizations, bridge gaps between teams, and successfully influence without authority.
• Strong technical judgment with the ability to define clear charters and structure teams for speed, clarity, and cross-functional alignment.

Nice to have

• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, cloud networking, service meshes (e.g., Istio or Linkerd), and Infrastructure-as-Code tools like CDK or Terraform.
• Experience architecting AWS-native solutions, including VPC design, IAM, and multi-account strategies.
• History of delivering platform capabilities that measurably improved developer experience and operational efficiency.
• Strong background in infrastructure automation, observability, and platform reliability best practices.
• Experience building internal developer platforms, libraries, or CI/CD pipelines that abstract cloud complexity (e.g., via Backstage).

Culture & Benefits

• Overall Cloud Engineering including developer experience at hirify.global.
• Complete ownership of executing Platform Engineering processes.
• Identify areas for process improvement across the Engineering team.
• Significant improvement in 12 months.