Staff Software Engineer, Storage - Taulu (Go)

Location: Hybrid position; must be located in the New York Metro Area, Bay Area, or Seattle

Salary: $193,800–$285,000 USD base salary annually, plus potential equity grants.

Company

hirify.global operates a large-scale technology platform supporting business-critical workloads across hirify.global, Wolt, and Deliveroo.

What you will do

• Own the reliability, performance, correctness, and lifecycle of the storage abstraction platform.
• Set technical direction for the data-access layer, provider model, caching, routing, and long-term architecture.
• Work across the data plane, including proxies, key-value systems, CDC, routing, tail latency, hot partitions, GC/MVCC behavior, and failure isolation.
• Shape thin and thick providers, polyglot code generation, and SDKs connecting application services to the platform.
• Lead resolution of mission-critical incidents, capacity planning, performance improvements, and reliability initiatives for Tier-0 services.
• Mentor senior engineers, influence cross-team roadmaps, and guide customers from onboarding through adoption.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in at least one Tier-0 storage or data-plane system, such as distributed key-value stores, database internals, caching, or storage proxies.
• Strong production experience with Go and low-latency, high-throughput systems.
• Hands-on knowledge of MVCC, garbage collection or compaction, consistency models, replication, and/or CDC.
• Experience owning mission-critical services, including on-call leadership, incident resolution, and capacity and performance engineering.
• Staff-level technical leadership, Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure experience, strong observability skills, and proficiency with AI coding tools throughout the software development lifecycle.

Nice to have

• Cassandra or comparable wide-column/NoSQL internals and operations experience.
• Experience building clients, SDKs, code-generation systems, or provider and abstraction layers for polyglot clients.
• Open-source contributions to storage, database, or distributed-systems projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work in the specified United States locations.
• Comprehensive benefits for regular employees, including medical, dental, vision, disability, and basic life insurance.
• 401(k) plan with employer matching, paid parental leave, paid time off, and paid sick leave.
• Wellness, commuter, family-forming assistance, and mental health benefits.
• Flexible paid time off for salaried roles and 11 paid holidays.