AI Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure (AI)

Location: New York, United States; full-time, in-person, 5 days a week

Salary: $175,000–$275,000 USD per year, plus equity and benefits

Company

hirify.global builds AI-powered site reliability software that troubleshoots, remediates, and helps prevent complex production incidents for enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Design scalable, reliable infrastructure for AI workloads, inference, data pipelines, and agentic workflows.
• Build CI/CD and software development lifecycle tooling for the engineering organization.
• Operate and improve highly available, resilient, and cost-efficient AWS and Kubernetes platforms.
• Evolve Terraform and Helm deployments across multiple environments, including secrets, policy-as-code, and workload identity.
• Build end-to-end observability and connect infrastructure signals to the AI SRE agent.
• Improve security and compliance through least privilege, just-in-time access, default-deny egress, auditability, and policy-as-code.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in technically rigorous engineering environments.
• Hands-on experience operating AWS and Kubernetes-native infrastructure and applications at scale with more than 99.9% availability.
• Practical experience with AWS, EKS, Terraform, and Helm.
• Experience designing idempotent systems, including outbox patterns, deduplication keys, and safe replay.
• Experience with incident response, chaos testing, capacity planning, and debugging across infrastructure, compute, networking, runtime, storage, and authentication layers.
• Ability to work in person in New York five days per week.

Nice to have

• Experience with Envoy, Istio, Cilium, or eBPF.
• Experience operating GPU workloads, inference servers, or token-streaming gateways.
• Production experience with Python, Rust, and TypeScript.
• Experience with data governance, PII discovery and redaction, lineage, or tokenization.
• Experience designing cross-region active/active architectures or working with GCP, Azure, or Oracle Cloud.

Culture & Benefits

• Health insurance and additional employee benefits.
• Startup equity and competitive compensation.
• Flexible time off.
• Technical equipment and in-office snacks.
• Collaborative, high-impact environment focused on AI-powered software maintenance.