Platform Engineer (AWS/Kubernetes)

Location: On-site in San Francisco, California, or Singapore; candidates based elsewhere, particularly in Europe, may be considered for fully remote independent-contractor work.

Salary: $150,000–$250,000 USD annually

Company

hirify.global is building a core platform supported by a tight-knit engineering team of approximately 15 people.

What you will do

• Own production uptime, latency, provisioning speed, infrastructure costs, and incident response for core platform services.
• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, Docker, EC2, CodeBuild, ECR, S3, IAM, networking, and secrets management.
• Design backend and platform systems for scale, including capacity planning, autoscaling, queueing, backpressure, retries, cleanup jobs, and rollback paths.
• Improve dashboards, alerts, logs, traces, SLOs, runbooks, and on-call workflows for faster failure detection and resolution.
• Build CI/CD pipelines, release automation, environment management, and deployment workflows that improve developer productivity and reduce production risk.
• Write production-quality code to automate systems, improve backend services, and create internal developer tooling.

Requirements

• 2–4 years of experience owning production cloud infrastructure for a high-availability, user-facing platform.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and containerized systems, including Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, EC2, networking, load balancers, and secrets management.
• Experience operating CI/CD, release automation, observability, alerting, and incident-response systems.
• Strong backend engineering judgment across service architecture, APIs, databases, asynchronous systems, queues, scaling limits, and production failure modes.
• Experience designing for bursty workloads, long-running jobs, sandboxed execution, distributed workers, or high-concurrency services.
• On-site availability in San Francisco or Singapore, or eligibility for remote independent-contractor work from elsewhere.

Nice to have

• Infrastructure experience with data-heavy, ML/AI, workflow, marketplace, developer-tools, or enterprise platforms.
• Experience reducing cloud spend through architecture improvements, autoscaling, workload placement, caching, or cleanup systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a tight-knit engineering team of approximately 15 people.
• Visa sponsorship is available.
• Remote independent-contractor work may be considered for candidates based outside the primary on-site locations.