Senior Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure (Go)

TL;DR

Senior Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure (Go): Build and operate the cloud-native Kubernetes platform that products run on, with an accent on production reliability, Kubernetes internals, and service mesh capabilities. Focus on designing multi-region platform architecture, writing Go services/controllers, and driving SLOs, incident response, and observability to keep dependent engineering teams running safely.

Location: Remote (Pacific Hours: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM PST)

Company

hirify.global builds cloud-native products and relies on a Kubernetes platform for production operations.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate production Kubernetes clusters, including networking, workload isolation, and multi-region topologies.
• Work with Kubernetes internals (resource quotas, scheduling behavior, NetworkPolicy) and build custom controllers/operators.
• Develop and maintain Go services, controllers, and middleware that extend the platform, including HTTP/REST and gRPC interfaces.
• Own reliability: lead incident response, perform root-cause analysis, write postmortems, and implement durable fixes.
• Define and drive SLOs with actionable alerting; troubleshoot using logs, metrics, traces, and profiling.
• Build platform delivery workflows with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and GitOps; maintain reusable IaC modules.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional experience in software/platform/infrastructure/SRE, including significant time operating production distributed systems.
• Proven experience building and operating production Kubernetes platforms (not just deploying to Kubernetes).
• Production experience writing Go as the primary day-to-day language.
• Strong Kubernetes internals knowledge: networking (CNI), NetworkPolicy, resource management, and cluster behavior under load.
• Hands-on service mesh experience (Istio/Envoy/Linkerd or similar) including mTLS and workload identity.
• Experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, PromQL) and production debugging/performance profiling.

Nice to have

• Experience with Go testing frameworks (Ginkgo, Gomega).
• Experience building Kubernetes controllers/operators and API-server extensions.
• Additional strength in Python.
• Experience with identity and access management (SSO, Keycloak, OIDC, SAML) and/or secret management (Vault or cloud equivalent).
• Experience with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, GDPR) and/or designing for high availability and disaster recovery across regions.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote role with coverage aligned to Pacific Hours (8:00 AM – 5:00 PM PST).
• Hands-on platform engineering where value is measured by platform capability and reliability.
• Ownership of ambiguous, multi-quarter initiatives through production delivery.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product, security, and infrastructure teams, plus mentoring and engineering standards.

Hiring process

• Interviews focused on Kubernetes/platform engineering, Go services/controllers, reliability ownership, and observability/SLO practices.
• Discussion of experience taking ambiguous initiatives to production and collaborating across teams.