Sr. Staff Production Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure)

Location: Hybrid, with three days per week in San Jose, California, or Bellevue, Washington, USA

Salary: $143,500–$205,000 USD base salary per year, excluding bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global provides a cloud-native Zero Trust Exchange platform that uses security data and AI to protect users, devices, and applications from cyberattacks and data loss.

What you will do

• Design and implement highly available, scalable infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, and bare-metal environments.
• Write Python and Go code to eliminate manual toil, build self-healing systems, and promote an automation-first operating model.
• Implement observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry; define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Serve as a lead Incident Commander during on-call operations, develop response playbooks, and conduct post-incident analyses.
• Partner with engineering and other teams on operability reviews and infrastructure standards.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience managing reliability, scalability, and availability for large-scale production services.
• Deep programming expertise in Python, Go, or C/C++.
• Strong knowledge of networking protocols, Linux or FreeBSD systems, and distributed architecture.
• Experience with high-stakes incident management and participation in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
• Experience using ITIL frameworks, incident data, problem management, and technical operability reviews.
• Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience applying, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI-driven AIOps, anomaly detection, or predictive capacity planning.
• Expertise in AWS, Azure, GCP, Ansible, Terraform, chaos engineering, or disaster recovery at scale.
• Knowledge of BGP, GRE, IPSec, HAProxy, DNS at scale, and operating-system networking internals.

Culture & Benefits

• High-impact, high-accountability environment centered on customer obsession, collaboration, ownership, and transparency.
• Health plans, vacation and sick time, parental leave, retirement options, and education reimbursement.
• In-office perks and an inclusive workplace focused on belonging and equal opportunity.