Senior Resource Plane Platform Engineer (SRE)

TL;DR

Senior Resource Plane Platform Engineer (SRE): Building, operating, and evolving the Resource Plane of an Internal Developer Platform with an accent on stateful distributed systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Elasticsearch. Focus on applying SRE principles, automating infrastructure via GitOps, and ensuring high availability and scalability for shared runtime services.

Location: Must be based in Portugal (Fully remote)

Company

hirify.global is a leading provider of cloud communications and collaboration technology that helps companies connect more effectively.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and operate shared Resource Plane services across the organization.
• Manage and evolve production-grade Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Elasticsearch platforms.
• Apply SRE principles to ensure availability, scalability, and reliability of stateful systems.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps-based automation for lifecycle management.
• Define guardrails and golden paths for platform consumers and integrate services into the Internal Developer Platform.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements.

Requirements

• Must be based in Portugal.
• Senior-level experience operating production-grade, stateful distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
• Proven experience running infrastructure primarily in on-prem environments.
• Deep experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, specifically Terraform.
• Solid grasp of reliability engineering concepts such as SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning.

Nice to have

• Experience designing shared platform services for multiple product teams.
• Familiarity with Internal Developer Platform (IDP) concepts.
• Experience migrating on-prem workloads to cloud-native or hybrid models.
• Exposure to security, compliance, and governance for shared infrastructure.
• Prior experience in staff- or principal-level technical leadership roles.

Culture & Benefits

• Strong track record of growth and profitability with a focus on internal promotion.
• Collaborative culture built on teamwork, transparency, and mutual accountability.
• Opportunity to work on complex, high-impact cloud infrastructure.
• Stable environment with many long-tenured employees.

Hiring process

• Candidate review and resume screening.
• Interview stages.