Senior Backend Engineer (Vector AI)

Location: Mountain View, CA, USA

Base salary: Zone A $210,300–$273,400 USD; Zone B $187,200–$243,300 USD; Zone C $165,600–$215,200 USD.

Company

hirify.global develops a leading game engine and 3D development platform used for games, XR, web experiences, and applications across industries including automotive, manufacturing, and healthcare.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and deploy backend services and distributed systems for large-scale online model inference.
• Drive the technical direction of low-latency, high-throughput inference infrastructure.
• Partner with ML engineers to scale online serving infrastructure as model complexity and inference volumes grow.
• Improve production reliability, scalability, and efficiency using monitoring and observability tools.
• Manage GCP cloud infrastructure and orchestrate workloads with Kubernetes.
• Implement backend development, testing, deployment, DevOps, and SRE best practices.

Requirements

• Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining distributed systems at scale.
• Expertise in Golang for high-performance, low-latency backend infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with GCP and Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, microservices, Docker, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience in ad tech, recommender systems, real-time personalization, or other performance-critical domains.
• Professional English proficiency is required for frequent communication with colleagues and partners worldwide.

Nice to have

• Experience with ML inference servers such as NVIDIA Triton Inference Server.
• Familiarity with auction mechanics or bidding systems in ad tech.
• Experience using AI as a strategic engineering advantage while maintaining code quality and security.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, life, and disability insurance offerings vary by country and employment status.
• Employee stock ownership and retirement or pension plans.
• Generous vacation and personal days, parental leave, and family-care programs.
• Mental health, wellbeing, employee assistance, and employee resource group programs.
• Training and development programs, volunteering support, commute subsidy, and office snacks.