Engineering Manager (Cloud Monitoring)

Location: San Francisco, CA, United States; on-site

Salary: $215,000–$260,000 annually, plus bonus and Restricted Stock Units.

Company

hirify.global builds vertically integrated AI infrastructure and cloud services for demanding AI training and inference workloads.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a Platform team of 4–6 engineers through 1:1s, career development, performance management, and team-health practices.
• Own time-series and log storage systems and the query layer serving dashboards, APIs, and investigations.
• Plan and sequence customer-facing and infrastructure roadmap work, managing delivery risks and cross-team dependencies.
• Set technical direction with Staff engineers and make tradeoffs involving query latency, availability, correctness, retention, storage cost, and scale.
• Own the on-call rotation and operational health of the storage and query stack.
• Partner with recruiting, product, peer managers, infrastructure teams, and leadership as the observability platform expands.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience, ideally in backend or distributed systems such as databases, storage engines, query engines, streaming pipelines, or data-intensive services.
• 2+ years of direct engineering management experience, including performance cycles and career conversations.
• Experience coaching senior and Staff engineers and partnering effectively with strong technical leads.
• Experience delivering multi-phase infrastructure projects against fixed deadlines and managing systems used by customers during incidents.
• Technical familiarity with Go, Rust, Java, or C++, plus hands-on Kubernetes experience.
• Ability to work on-site in San Francisco, United States.

Nice to have

• Experience with time-series databases or columnar storage such as Prometheus, Thanos, Mimir, VictoriaMetrics, InfluxDB, or ClickHouse.
• Experience with query planning, pushdown, caching, concurrency limits, and query-cost controls.
• Experience with retention, compaction, downsampling, storage tiering, log storage, search systems, or observability technologies such as OpenTelemetry and Grafana.
• Experience with multi-tenant systems, GPU or accelerated-computing environments, or scaling engineering teams through growth.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation, equity, and Restricted Stock Units.
• Paid time off, holidays, leave programs, and paid parental leave.
• Health, dental, vision, life, disability, and mental-health support benefits.
• Employer HSA contributions and a 401(k) plan with company matching up to 4% of salary.
• Professional development, tuition reimbursement, commuter benefits, cell phone stipend, daily meals allowance, volunteer time off, and global travel insurance.