Senior or Staff Software Engineer, SRE/ Platform Team

TL;DR

Senior or Staff Software Engineer (SRE/Platform): Building and optimizing scalable infrastructure for high-throughput systems handling billions of requests with an accent on automation, observability, and reliability. Focus on infrastructure as code with Kubernetes and Terraform, advanced database performance tuning, and CI/CD golden paths for engineering teams.

Location: Remote from United Kingdom, United States (California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Washington), Canada, or Singapore

Salary: GBP 100,000–125,000 (Senior), GBP 125,000–145,000 (Staff)

Company

hirify.global is a Series C venture-backed SaaS platform powering omnichannel customer engagement for 1.5B monthly active users across push notifications, in-app messaging, SMS, and email.

What you will do

• Optimize system performance by identifying bottlenecks, improving databases, and evaluating new storage technologies.
• Build infrastructure as code using Kubernetes and Terraform for resilient, scalable architecture.
• Establish observability and monitoring stacks to proactively address issues.
• Define CI/CD best practices to streamline deployments for engineering teams.
• Collaborate with teams to architect scalable, observable services.
• Participate in on-call rotation for incident response and system health maintenance.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of platform engineering experience
• Experience operating reliable production systems at scale
• Knowledge of Linux systems internals
• Desire and ability to automate tasks
• Experience managing PostgreSQL or similar SQL datastores at high scale
• Operational experience with Kubernetes deployment and management
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Nice to have

• Recent experience writing Go and/or Rust
• Working with ScyllaDB
• Experience with Redis, Kafka, etcd, Clickhouse, Kubernetes

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work across supported locations with flex seating in offices (San Mateo, CA; London, UK).
• Emphasis on collaboration, ownership, personal growth, and scale with small teams.
• Competitive equity program and comprehensive benefits.
• Friendliness, empathy, accountability, proactiveness, growth mindset valued.
• Inclusive environment with no discrimination; accommodations for disabilities.