Senior Software Engineer (Go)

Location: New York City, USA; hybrid schedule requiring office work at least four days per week

Salary: $120,000–$170,000 yearly

Company

hirify.global is a global media and entertainment company producing and distributing film, television, streaming, news, sports, and theme park content through brands including Peacock, NBC, Bravo, and Universal Pictures.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance software systems primarily in Go for large-scale video delivery.
• Build reliable services supporting VOD, live events, linear channels, dynamic ad insertion, and manifest manipulation.
• Partner with Site Reliability Engineering to create highly available, resilient, performant, and fault-tolerant systems.
• Use metrics, logs, traces, and performance analytics for proactive issue detection and root-cause analysis.
• Contribute to multi-CDN strategies, routing logic, content-origin workflows, and multi-region streaming performance.
• Influence technical direction, architecture, code quality, and engineering best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience with hands-on Go development; Python experience is also relevant.
• Experience deploying and operating cloud applications using AWS, GCP, or Azure, plus Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD, Git-based repositories, automated testing, and build pipelines.
• Practical knowledge of SRE concepts, including SLIs/SLOs, auto-scaling, distributed systems reliability, and incident response.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for collaboration with distributed teams across the US, UK, EU, and Africa.

Nice to have

• Experience with CDNs such as Akamai, CloudFront, Fastly, or Cloudflare.
• Knowledge of HLS, DASH, manifests, content origins, or content routing.
• Experience with global-scale systems, multi-region deployments, or high-availability architectures.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k), paid leave, and tuition reimbursement.
• Additional employee discounts and company benefits.
• Collaboration with engineering colleagues across multiple regions.

Hiring process

• External candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview at an hirify.global location before a hiring decision.