Staff / Principal Platform Engineer (AI)

Location: Mountain View, California, USA; candidates must be based in the SF Bay Area or willing to relocate, with onsite work at the South Bay office a few days a week

US base salary: $280,000–$350,000 per year, plus equity and benefits

Company

hirify.global is an AI research lab building realtime voice models, cloud infrastructure, APIs, and products for consumer-facing applications.

What you will do

• Design, deploy, and maintain reliable, high-performance, and secure cloud infrastructure for TTS and LLM Router services.
• Own the evolution of cloud infrastructure across major cloud providers using Terraform, ArgoCD, and related tooling.
• Build AI-powered tools and workflows that improve software development and deployment velocity.
• Provide monitoring and operational tooling for service reliability, availability, and performance.
• Manage application and infrastructure integration and deployment pipelines.
• Perform root cause analysis and automate solutions to prevent recurring critical issues.

Requirements

• 8–10 years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of infrastructure-as-code experience.
• Experience managing Kubernetes clusters and applications, including Kustomize manifests and Helm charts.
• Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, and Ansible.
• Deep knowledge of at least one major cloud provider: Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, or Oracle Cloud.
• Proficiency in a backend programming or scripting language such as Golang, Python, or Bash.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a research-driven environment focused on realtime voice AI.
• Take end-to-end ownership of infrastructure, security, scaling, and operational practices.
• Collaborate with engineers across the organization.
• Compensation includes base pay, equity, and benefits.