Software Engineer II (Distributed Systems)

Location: Remote within the United States; listed locations are Seattle, Washington and San Francisco, California.

Salary: $118,400–$194,250 annually by US market tier, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global Technologies develops an open-source and enterprise distributed systems platform for workflow orchestration.

What you will do

• Design, implement, test, and ship features and improvements for the core hirify.global server.
• Work on distributed systems areas including task matching, scheduling, workflow execution, visibility, quotas, throttling, persistence, and workflow lifecycle features.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, cloud teams, and customer-facing teams to deliver scalable solutions.
• Improve reliability and operability through tests, instrumentation, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation.
• Participate in design discussions and code reviews while contributing bug fixes and developer-experience improvements for open-source users and enterprise customers.
• Share knowledge and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture.

Requirements

• Experience building and operating production backend systems, including distributed systems and concurrency.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, including concurrency, data structures, and debugging.
• Production-quality programming experience in Go, Java, or another applicable backend language.
• Familiarity with fault tolerance, consistency tradeoffs, replication, scheduling, and performance in distributed systems.
• Ability to break down ambiguous problems, incorporate code-review feedback, and communicate progress, risks, and tradeoffs clearly.
• Experience with testing practices and an operational mindset is beneficial.

Nice to have

• Experience with open-source software or communities.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Exposure to Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.
• Exposure to Kubernetes or related tooling such as CRDs, KEDA, or Argo.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on work on a distributed systems platform used by an open-source community and enterprise customers.
• Opportunities to learn a large, complex codebase and deepen distributed systems expertise.
• Collaboration with experienced engineers and cross-functional teams.
• Equity is included in the compensation package.