The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  Pizza Hut is hiring a Safety Engineer in Harrisonburg, VA.

• Role description

  Pizza Hut is hiring a Safety Engineer to design, build, and ship software that serves millions of users every day. For a detail-focused professional with 5+ years behind them, this freelance Safety Engineer job delivers $75,000 - $105,000 and meaningful growth.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and GraphQL libraries
  • Land Kotlin performance wins Pizza Hut can measure in VA retention numbers
  • Scale Pizza Hut's Team Leadership services from Harrisonburg pilot to VA-wide rollout
  • Keep Pizza Hut's Kotlin CI under ten minutes so Harrisonburg, VA engineers stay in flow
  • Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents across GraphQL-based applications
  • Identify bottlenecks and propose architectural improvements proactively
  • Mentor the mid-level cohort through their first real MySQL on-call at Pizza Hut

  What You'll Bring

  • 4+ years putting Flask to work in a technology setting
  • The instinct to ask "what would change your mind?" before debating
  • Mid-level fluency in Flask, with Kotlin on your roadmap
  • Strong rapport-building skills and a genuinely positive presence

  Pizza Hut has spent 3 years turning technology headaches into routine wins for clients across Harrisonburg, VA. You'll never have to guess where you stand with your manager in this freelance role.

  Count on $75,000 - $105,000, remote-first flexibility, parental leave, and a stipend for the tools and courses you need.

  Hiring for this position is live and moving quickly, with interviews already underway.

  The next chapter of your career is one application away.

• Required skills

  • Go
  • Java
  • GraphQL
  • Flask
  • MySQL
  • Kotlin
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Team Leadership

• Benefits & perks

  • Dental Insurance
  • Fully remote position
  • Product Discounts
  • Paid bereavement leave
  • Charitable Giving
  • Adoption assistance
  • Voluntary benefits marketplace
  • Cell phone plan discounts
  • Game room and recreation space
  • Acupuncture coverage
  • Employee resource groups (ERGs)
  • Pet Insurance

• Apply before 2026-09-06

  Submit your application for this Freelance technology position.