Software Engineer, Data Platform

Location: Los Angeles, CA, United States

Salary: $125,000–$220,000 annually

Company

hirify.global designs, builds, and operates low-cost uranium enrichment services in the United States to support nuclear energy, advanced manufacturing, and other critical industries.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and maintain high-throughput data pipelines for kHz-class, high-channel-count sensor telemetry across test and production environments.
• Design and operate time-series storage and industrial data historians for long-term retention, query performance, and schema evolution.
• Build ingestion and streaming services with buffering, backpressure, idempotency, and no silent data loss.
• Define data architecture, schema standards, testing strategies, software engineering practices, and operational standards for the data platform.
• Collaborate with controls, test automation, and visualization teams to provide data for analytics and live dashboards.
• Lead debugging, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements across the ingestion-to-storage stack.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience building data pipelines, streaming systems, or backend data infrastructure.
• Production-level experience with Python and SQL.
• Hands-on experience with high-throughput data ingestion and time-series or historian storage, including distributed systems and data reliability.
• Experience with high-reliability, on-premise, 24/7 deployments in safety-critical environments.
• Ability to work extended hours and weekends when necessary.

Nice to have

• Experience with InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, Redis, and industrial data historians.
• Experience with MQTT, DDS, OPC-UA, Kafka, or other streaming and pub/sub middleware.
• Experience with observability, infrastructure-as-code, and visualization tools such as Grafana.
• Background in industrial automation, aerospace, energy, finance or trading, telecom, or scientific research.
• Technical leadership experience in setting engineering standards and mentoring engineering teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven environment focused on making nuclear energy more affordable.
• Lean engineering and operations team using a first-principles approach.
• Culture emphasizing urgency, accountability, and transparency.
• Full-time hires may be eligible for stock options.
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage, plus access to a 401(k) retirement plan.