Staff Data Engineer (AI)

Location: San Francisco or remote in the US/Canada

Salary: $195,000–$273,000 per year plus equity

Company

hirify.global is building a developer-first cloud platform for AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications with persistent compute, autoscaling, orchestration, and observability.

What you will do

• Set the architecture and technical direction for the Data Platform and shape its roadmap.
• Build and operate ingestion services, ELT pipelines, APIs, event-driven workflows, and reusable cloud infrastructure.
• Evolve orchestration platforms, worker infrastructure, deployment patterns, and operational reliability.
• Improve BigQuery warehouse performance, cost efficiency, access control, governance, and dbt foundations.
• Establish standards for testing, logging, alerting, observability, version control, CI/CD, and documentation.
• Support analytics, data science, and AI workflows while mentoring data engineers and collaborating across technical and business teams.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related technical field, including architecture and technical direction.
• Deep expertise in cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery, Databricks, or Snowflake, including modeling, performance, cost management, and access control.
• Strong Python and SQL skills with hands-on experience building ingestion and ELT pipelines and maintainable data models.
• Experience operating Prefect, Airflow, Dagster, or similar orchestration platforms, including deployments, upgrades, workers, and reliability.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tools, APIs, backend services, and event-driven workflows.
• Strong production engineering, communication, cross-functional collaboration, mentoring, and technical leadership skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with hirify.global’s data stack, including GCP, BigQuery, Segment, and dbt.
• Experience with developer-focused, product-led, sales-led, or usage-based businesses.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, PaaS, developer tooling, or technically complex products.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Codex, Cursor, or Claude Code.

Culture & Benefits

• Four weeks of paid vacation and 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
• Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage, with FSA and HSA options.
• Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401(k) plans.
• Monthly lifestyle, phone, and internet subsidies; home-office stipends for remote employees and commuter benefits in the Bay Area.
• Continuous learning benefits and a culture of integrity, feedback, thoughtful debate, and mutual respect.
• The position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship; existing visa transfers may be sponsored at hirify.global’s discretion with business authorization.

Hiring process

• The interview process is tailored to the role and designed to be thoughtful, respectful, and clear.