Staff Software Engineer, Quality & Reliability Platform

Location: San Francisco, CA; hybrid work schedule. Applicants must be based in the U.S. where hirify.global is registered and able to support employment. Currently excluded states: Alaska, Hawaii, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Base salary: $197,000–$262,000 annually, plus annual bonus and meaningful equity.

Company

hirify.global is a commercial trade platform transforming the commercial contracting industry with AI-driven tools and software for contractors.

What you will do

• Define and drive technical strategy for engineering quality, production reliability, and safe software delivery.
• Identify systemic causes of customer-impacting failures and lead cross-team initiatives to address root causes.
• Establish architectural principles, engineering standards, and paved roads for reliable system design and delivery.
• Build or guide shared platform capabilities for release safety, automated validation, observability, test data, environment management, and developer self-service.
• Improve validation across services, data boundaries, financial workflows, and other business-critical systems.
• Lead multi-team technical programs, influence decisions without direct authority, and mentor engineers and technical leaders.

Requirements

• Significant software engineering experience, including Staff-level or equivalent work on ambiguous, cross-cutting technical problems.
• Experience leading multi-team initiatives that improved production reliability, software delivery, platform capabilities, or engineering effectiveness.
• Strong systems thinking and experience connecting architecture, data integrity, operations, developer workflows, and customer impact.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems in a cloud environment such as AWS.
• Strong software design and programming skills in TypeScript, Java, or another relevant language.
• Experience with observability, resilience engineering, CI/CD, release safety, automated validation, developer platforms, testability, performance engineering, or incident learning.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work schedules with hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, and Raleigh.
• Comprehensive benefits package, flexible PTO, and a one-time work-from-home allowance.
• Generous equity grant and annual bonus.
• Lunch provided on in-office days, plus in-person and virtual company events.
• Opportunities for growth and career advancement in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.