Senior Software Engineer, Database Systems (AI)

Location: Redwood City, United States; hybrid workplace

Company

hirify.global develops enterprise-grade vector database technologies for AI applications, including the Milvus open-source vector database and Vector Lakebase.

What you will do

• Design and build core database modules covering storage, query engines, indexing, load balancing, resource management, and distributed execution.
• Evolve the engine architecture with Lake-native capabilities, elastic scaling, and large-scale multi-tenancy.
• Build database capabilities for AI and Agent workloads with higher concurrency, larger scale, and lower latency.
• Own the stability of hirify.global Cloud and bring engine capabilities into production with cloud platform and product engineering teams.
• Improve AI developer tooling, engineering workflow, and system observability.
• Contribute design documents, code, reviews, and technical discussions to the Milvus open-source community.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience building database systems, distributed systems, storage engines, query engines, search systems, or large-scale data infrastructure.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong systems programming ability in one or more of C++, Go, or Rust.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and database internals, including consistency, scalability, performance, fault tolerance, query execution, storage, indexing, and resource management.
• Strong engineering judgment regarding simplicity, durable abstractions, performance, and cost tradeoffs.

Nice to have

• Experience with large-scale cloud-native databases, storage systems, search systems, or data platforms.
• Open-source contributions involving databases, storage, search, Kubernetes, or distributed systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Deep systems engineering focused on correctness, performance, simplicity, and long-term architecture.
• AI-assisted coding, testing, documentation, and design workflows with human engineering judgment.
• Fast-paced environment with ownership, rapid learning, and challenging database problems.
• Competitive cash compensation, equity, bonuses, and equity refresh opportunities.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance; paid vacation, sick leave, global reset and wellbeing days.
• Generous 401(k) and regional retirement plans.