Senior Systems Engineer II (Linux)

Location: United States; remote work with 15–20% travel for on-premises purposes

Salary: $150,000–$159,000 per year

Company

hirify.global builds secure, private network infrastructure for critical industries, including on-premises appliances deployed in industrial and infrastructure environments.

What you will do

• Own the build, packaging, release, signing, and provenance processes for on-premises OS images, packages, container images, and release bundles.
• Design and operate reliable appliance updates with staging, verification, rollback, cohorts, canaries, and support for constrained or air-gapped deployments.
• Extend appliance runtimes for local telemetry, preprocessing, buffering, store-and-forward workflows, and local decisioning.
• Define edge-versus-cloud responsibilities while protecting fixed appliance resources and network data paths.
• Build appliance-in-the-loop testing, upgrade and downgrade validation, local observability, and evidence-producing security workflows.
• Partner with field, support, security, compliance, product, and engineering teams; write operational documentation and mentor IC1 and IC2 engineers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional engineering experience shipping software on infrastructure that the engineering team does not operate.
• Ownership of release and update mechanisms for edge, appliance, embedded, or on-premises enterprise systems.
• Deep Linux systems knowledge, including systemd, boot and init, filesystems and partitions, kernels, package lifecycles, and distribution assembly.
• Strong packaging and distribution experience with Debian/apt, OCI images, image-based or A/B updates, artifact signing, and repository operation.
• Proficiency in at least one systems-capable language: Go, Rust, Python, or C; plus Ansible, Terraform, containers, CI/CD, and network fundamentals.
• Must be based in the United States; participation in an on-call rotation and 15–20% travel for on-premises work are expected.

Nice to have

• Experience with OT, ICS, industrial, air-gapped, intermittently connected, or security-focused environments.
• Knowledge of IEC 62443, NERC CIP, FIPS-validated cryptography, FedRAMP-adjacent work, SLSA, in-toto, Sigstore, or SBOM workflows.
• Experience with lightweight Kubernetes, atomic Linux updates, on-premises virtualization, hardware qualification, edge telemetry, VPN, ZTNA, or secure remote access products.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with travel for on-premises deployments.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Unlimited paid time off and parental leave.
• Full medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Performance bonus and equity eligibility.
• Collaborative engineering environment with support for learning, feedback, and mentoring.