Software Engineer, Machine Lifecycle

Location: New York, United States; hybrid working opportunities available

Salary: $150,000–$250,000 annual base salary, plus eligible discretionary bonus

Company

hirify.global is a quantitative trading firm that develops high-performance electronic trading infrastructure and operates as a global organization.

What you will do

• Design and build the end-to-end machine lifecycle pipeline, from power-on and network boot through OS installation, configuration, validation, and production handoff.
• Automate hardware bring-up using BMC, Redfish, and IPMI, including firmware updates, BIOS settings, boot order, and inventory discovery.
• Automate OS provisioning with PXE or UEFI HTTP boot and unattended installation.
• Develop Python and Ansible automation, replacing manual runbooks with reviewed and versioned code.
• Apply GitOps and CI/CD practices, including desired-state reconciliation, testing, staged rollouts, and drift correction.
• Build health checks, stress tests, metrics, logging, and auditable lifecycle state transitions in collaboration with HPC and datacenter teams.

Requirements

• Strong Python experience for automation, tooling, and services.
• Hands-on experience writing Ansible playbooks and roles.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD principles, testing, staged rollouts, and version control.
• Linux knowledge, including the boot process, system services, and machine troubleshooting.
• Automation-first and GitOps mindset with sound judgment around safe failures, retries, and audit trails.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to document operational knowledge as reliable automation.

Nice to have

• Experience with bare-metal provisioning tools such as MAAS, Tinkerbell, Foreman, Ironic, or equivalent systems.
• Familiarity with BMCs, Redfish, IPMI, iDRAC, or iLO.
• Experience with hardware validation, burn-in, stress testing, or firmware qualification at fleet scale.
• Experience with GitOps tooling or declarative infrastructure management.
• Background in datacenter, HPC, or large-fleet environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working opportunities in a collaborative, low-hierarchy environment.
• Generous paid time off and regional savings and financial wellness plans.
• Free breakfast, lunch, and snacks daily.
• Wellness experiences, select wellness expense reimbursement, sports teams, and fitness events.
• Volunteer opportunities, charitable giving, social events, and continuous learning workshops.