Principal Software Architect (Data Platform)

Location: Hybrid in New York City, United States

Estimated total compensation: $270,000–$330,000 per year (base plus bonus)

Company

hirify.global provides cybersecurity ratings and risk management technology used to assess organizations and improve resilience across digital footprints.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end system design of the data platform, from internet-scale ingestion through analytical serving.
• Define service boundaries, data contracts, schema ownership, compatibility rules, and breaking-change processes.
• Design the lakehouse, including table formats, partitioning, schema evolution, compaction, and metadata management.
• Architect isolated serving layers for customer queries, internal analytics and Data Science exploration, and bulk partner delivery.
• Build data quality, observability, validation, lineage, freshness, completeness, and drift detection into the platform.
• Set architectural direction through prototypes, Technical Design Reviews, standards, design reviews, mentoring, and collaboration with engineering, Product, Data Science, AI, and Front-end Architecture.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software or data engineering experience, including significant experience architecting large-scale data platforms.
• Deep expertise in stream and batch processing with Kafka, Flink, Spark, or close equivalents.
• Strong Python and PySpark, solid Java for Flink, and enough Scala to reason about Spark codebases.
• Production experience with lakehouse storage, Parquet, Iceberg, partitioning, compaction, and schema evolution.
• Experience with analytical serving layers such as ClickHouse, Druid, Pinot, BigQuery, or Snowflake, plus strong distributed-systems fundamentals.
• Experience with data quality, contracts, observability, large-scale migrations, technical writing, design reviews, mentorship, and influencing without formal authority.

Nice to have

• Experience building data layers for ML or LLM systems, including feature stores, vector stores, or retrieval pipelines.
• Experience with internet-scale scan, telemetry, observability data, or cybersecurity.
• Experience reducing platform costs through storage tiering, query governance, or compute right-sizing.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment with country-specific benefits.
• Health benefits, stock options, and unlimited paid time off.
• Parental leave and tuition reimbursement.
• Additional compensation may include annual performance incentives and equity.
• Immigration sponsorship is not provided for this position.