Senior Platform Engineer (Cloud Workloads)

TL;DR

Senior Platform Engineer (Cloud Workloads): Designing and maintaining observability pipelines and critical infrastructure for Azure and AWS workloads with an accent on Elastic Stack, SLO/SLI reporting, and incident response. Focus on building proactive support tooling, scaling observability gaps, and optimizing multi-tenant cloud workloads.

Location: Hybrid in San Jose, CA

Salary: $158,400 — $294,100 USD

Company

hirify.global is the Data and AI Trust Company specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are secure, resilient, and scalable.

What you will do

• Design and maintain observability pipelines using the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Fleet) across Azure and AWS workloads.
• Develop and own SLO/SLI dashboards and error budget reporting for BaaS platform services.
• Lead incident response for distributed, multi-tenant cloud workloads, including runbook creation and continuous improvement.
• Build proactive support tooling for pattern analysis and baseline deviation alerting to reduce reactive support burden.
• Manage Elastic Fleet agent policies, enrollment health, and log streaming pipelines across worker fleets.
• Collaborate with SRE, R&D, and Proactive Support teams to close observability gaps.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in cloud platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure for commercial SaaS products.
• Deep hands-on experience with Elastic Stack: building dashboards, writing KQL/Query DSL, and managing Fleet.
• Proven experience operating and troubleshooting distributed, multi-tenant workloads on Azure and/or AWS.
• Strong understanding of Azure cloud services (AKS, Entra ID, Key Vault, Service Bus, Cosmos DB, etc.).
• Experience with IaC tools (Azure Bicep, Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions).
• Strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, or PowerShell.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with hirify.global Data Platform products.

Culture & Benefits

• Unlimited paid time off, 12 paid holidays, and extra global hirify.globale Days for self-care.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on the first day.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions.
• Paid parental leave (8 weeks for all parents, 16 weeks for birthing parents).
• Mental health support via Employee Assistance Program and virtual veterinary care.
• Access to on-demand learning libraries including LinkedIn Learning and O’Reilly.