Staff Software Engineer (Container Platform)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (Container Platform): Building and scaling the foundational container platform for production and AI/ML workloads across AWS, Azure, and GCP with an accent on Kubernetes fleet management and automation. Focus on designing multi-cloud abstractions and improving the developer experience for thousands of internal engineers.

Location: Menlo Park, CA, USA (Onsite)

Salary: $236,000 – $339,200

Company

hirify.global is a data cloud company powering the era of the agentic enterprise through AI-native infrastructure and scalable cloud services.

What you will do

• Own the design and delivery of complex platform initiatives spanning cluster lifecycle management, multi-cloud automation, and internal developer tooling.
• Drive cross-team technical improvements from architectural design through to wide-scale adoption.
• Make and defend architectural trade-offs grounded in reliability, scalability, and operational reality.
• Act as a technical anchor for the team, raising engineering standards and mentoring other engineers.
• Measure success by the velocity and reliability of the experience for thousands of internal engineers.

Requirements

• Significant experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Expertise in Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems at scale, including cluster lifecycle and fleet management.
• Proficiency in Go or a comparable systems language.
• Experience operating across multiple cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Must be based in or able to work from Menlo Park, CA.

Nice to have

• Experience with GPU infrastructure or AI/ML training workloads at scale.
• Open source contributions to Kubernetes or related ecosystem projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, innovative environment focused on redefining how work gets done via AI.
• Culture of low-ego individuals with an experimental mindset.
• Focus on treating AI as a high-trust collaborator to accelerate impact.
• Opportunity to work on foundational infrastructure with a massive blast radius.