Principal Software Engineer (Infra/Platform)

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States

Salary: $180,000–$235,000 annually

Company

hirify.global builds an AI-native marketing operations platform that orchestrates marketing technology stacks, workflows, and people to accelerate content and campaign execution.

What you will do

• Own the reliability, scalability, and operational health of the production platform.
• Lead the evolution of Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure as code.
• Build tooling and automation that improve engineering speed and deployment confidence.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, incident response, and service readiness.
• Identify and resolve scaling risks in partnership with engineering teams.
• Shape the long-term platform direction across reliability, security, performance, and cost.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or related roles with direct production-system ownership.
• Experience designing and operating production-grade infrastructure in fast-moving, high-growth environments.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, cloud-native architecture, and container orchestration.
• Strong experience with infrastructure as code, GitOps, CI/CD workflows, and modern deployment practices.
• Strong knowledge of observability and reliability fundamentals, including metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and incident response.
• Experience leading through influence, making sound technical decisions, and raising engineering standards.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI or ML infrastructure, GPU provisioning, model deployment, or compute-intensive workloads.
• Experience supporting cloud or multi-cloud environments focused on resilience and scale.
• Proficiency with TypeScript or Python for internal tooling and operational automation.

Culture & Benefits

• Performance-based annual bonus and meaningful equity awards.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, with employee coverage fully paid and 75% dependent coverage.
• Fertility and family-planning support, a 401(k) plan, and unlimited PTO.
• Seattle office with a gym, sauna, bike parking, and free lunch three days per week.
• Fast-paced, low-bureaucracy environment focused on ownership, learning, AI literacy, and impact.