Staff Software Engineer, Traffic (Networking)

Location: San Francisco, CA; must be based in and around the San Francisco office and work in-office.

Salary: $200,000–$275,000 USD annual base salary, plus benefits, equity, and applicable bonus.

Company

hirify.global develops an AI-enabled platform that turns disconnected data into operational intelligence for public safety organizations, government agencies, and private-sector institutions.

What you will do

• Design and build software-defined networking capabilities across customer, cloud, and Kubernetes environments.
• Develop platform capabilities for service communication, routing, traffic management, segmentation, and observability.
• Extend APIs and services that make networking capabilities reliable and self-service.
• Design safe configuration, policy enforcement, traffic rollout, and failure-recovery systems.
• Own the reliability, scalability, and observability of networking and traffic-management systems.
• Lead debugging across application, Kubernetes, cloud, and network boundaries while driving architecture and standards with Infrastructure, Security, and product engineering teams.

Requirements

• 9+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, or network engineering, building and operating systems at scale.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or a similar language, with experience building production systems or services.
• Deep understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, routing, DNS, load balancing, NAT, and VPNs.
• Experience with cloud and Kubernetes networking, including VPCs, routing, network policy, and service connectivity.
• Experience building or operating distributed systems or networking infrastructure such as control planes, traffic-management systems, gateways, proxies, or automation systems.
• Must be based in and around San Francisco and work in-office.

Culture & Benefits

• Annual salary of $200,000–$275,000 USD.
• Benefits, equity, and applicable bonus opportunities.
• Inclusive workplace committed to diversity and equal employment opportunity.
• Work with a platform serving public safety, government, and enterprise customers across multiple states and countries.