Staff Software Engineer (Malware Detection)

Location: Remote in Canada

Company

hirify.global builds hardened, secure, and production-ready open source software and AI agent artifacts for enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Own the architecture, scalability, and reliability of the shared malware scanning platform.
• Build measurement pipelines, metrics, dashboards, and feedback loops for detection coverage and precision.
• Develop scan orchestration, verdict storage, APIs, policy management, and customer-facing investigation and appeal services.
• Scale scanning from Libraries to Containers, Agent Skills, and future artifact types.
• Build deterministic static analysis and AI-assisted analysis for artifact contents, taking detections from research prototypes to production.
• Operate the scanner in the critical path of customer installations, including alerting, queue health, incident response, and verdict-before-serve guarantees.

Requirements

• Several years of experience building and operating production backend or infrastructure systems, with staff-level technical ownership.
• Strong Go experience or deep backend systems experience with the ability to ramp up quickly in Go.
• Experience with high-throughput, event-driven pipelines where throughput, latency, and correctness are critical.
• Understanding of software supply chain security, malware detection, vulnerability management, or adjacent security domains.
• Experience with production operations, reliability, observability, technical design, prioritization, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Applicants must be able to work remotely from Canada.

Nice to have

• Experience with malware detection, static analysis, software composition analysis, or vulnerability scanning.
• Familiarity with npm, PyPI, Maven, Go modules, or container registries.
• Experience with AI-assisted security analysis, sandboxing, dynamic analysis, eBPF, gVisor, seccomp, or container isolation.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work with team meetups, biannual destination summits, and a monthly coworking, phone, and internet stipend.
• Stock options upon hire and promotion, participation in secondary offerings, and a 10-year exercise period.
• 100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for employees and dependents.
• Flexible time off.
• Paid parental leave of up to 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.