Principal Software Engineer, HyperScale Build Platform and Tools (C/C++)

Location: Santa Clara, California; primarily in-office at the Santa Clara office

Salary: $217,000–$326,000 USD annual base salary, with possible incentive pay and/or equity.

Company

hirify.global is a data platform and storage company serving hyperscalers, AI labs, the AI hardware supply chain, and the broader AI ecosystem.

What you will do

• Own the technical vision and multi-year architecture for build orchestration, build systems, and containerized build environments.
• Lead build system selection and migration, remote execution and caching strategy, hermeticity, reproducibility, and developer-facing tradeoffs.
• Improve build speed, reliability, debuggability, incremental correctness, and ease of use across local development and CI workflows.
• Solve large-scale C/C++ build challenges involving dependency graphs, linking, toolchains, sysroots, and incremental builds.
• Define standards for reproducible containerized build environments and set operational practices for observability, incident response, capacity planning, and change management.
• Shape roadmaps, influence engineering leaders, mentor engineers, establish developer-experience metrics, and represent build infrastructure expertise across the organization.

Requirements

• Significant software engineering experience in infrastructure, developer productivity, build systems, or platform engineering.
• Experience setting technical direction for platforms used by multiple engineering teams and leading multi-team or multi-quarter initiatives.
• Deep expertise in modern build systems, dependency management, build-graph correctness, incremental and reproducible builds, remote execution and caching, artifact generation, and build isolation.
• Hands-on experience with Make, CMake, Buck, Bazel, or custom build orchestration tools, including production migrations.
• Deep experience with large-scale C/C++ builds, Linux development environments, Docker, containerized builds, and CI pipelines.
• Strong communication, technical writing, cross-organizational influence, mentoring, and engineering-metrics experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Innovation-focused environment that values critical thinking and challenging technical work.
• Growth and professional development support.
• Collaborative culture focused on shared outcomes and low ego.
• Flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events.
• Inclusive workplace with employee resource groups and accessibility accommodations during the hiring process.