Principal Engineer (Platform Engineering)

TL;DR

Principal Engineer (Platform Engineering): Stabilizing, scaling, and operating critical applications moving to production with an accent on observability, incident management, and cloud-native platforms. Focus on reducing MTTR through deep technical expertise in OpenShift, designing advanced monitoring dashboards, and driving SRE automation.

Location: Hybrid (3 days per week in-office) in Irving, TX, Charlotte, NC, or Minneapolis, MN

Salary: $85–$95 per hour

Company

hirify.global is a professional services firm providing contingent staffing and high-level engineering resources for complex business needs.

What you will do

• Lead production support for a portfolio of 20+ applications to ensure stability, performance, and rapid issue resolution.
• Design and build advanced observability dashboards and alerting systems using Splunk, Grafana, AppDynamics, and Prometheus.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across distributed microservices environments to reduce MTTR.
• Drive the adoption of modern SRE practices, including AIOps and intelligent monitoring solutions.
• Collaborate with development teams during release cycles to provide production-readiness guidance.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation to ensure operational excellence and application health.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in platform and production support.
• 5+ years of experience with RedHat Linux, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Java, microservices, Spring Boot, and Python.
• 5+ years of experience creating observability dashboards (Grafana, Splunk, AppDynamics).
• Experience with AIOps, ServiceNow, and BigPanda for incident handling.
• 4+ years of experience with React.js, Apache, Kafka, and relational databases.
• Must be able to work a hybrid schedule (3 days in-office) in Irving, TX, Charlotte, NC, or Minneapolis, MN.

Nice to have

• Prior development experience in Java-based ecosystems.
• Professional experience within the financial services industry.

Culture & Benefits

• 12-month contract with potential for extension or conversion to staff.
• Standard 8-hour workday, generally not exceeding 40 hours per week.
• Access to medical, dental, vision, and 401K contributions.
• On-call rotation supported by an offshore team to limit late-night requirements.

Hiring process

• Round 1: 60-minute MS Teams interview.
• Round 2: In-person interview.
• Final decision with RTM involvement.