Staff Software Engineer (Go)

Location: Remote-first; remote work may be available in-country or within a region depending on the role. Occasional travel may be required for onboarding and team gatherings.

Company

hirify.global develops open-source workflow orchestration technology and hirify.global Cloud services.

What you will do

• Set the technical direction and evolve the architecture of hirify.global’s OSS replication stack from problem definition through rollout and operational support.
• Design and implement replication protocols for high-availability namespaces, cross-cluster and cross-region replication, and cloud-to-self-hosted or cloud-to-cloud migration.
• Drive scalability and reliability initiatives including multi-cell namespaces, multi-cluster namespaces, load distribution, and hotspot management.
• Define system guarantees for consistency, ordering, idempotency, failure recovery, performance, and operational behavior.
• Partner with Cloud Enablement, CGS, Product, and engineering teams to align replication foundations with customer and product needs.
• Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, improve implementation and testing practices, and contribute to production debugging and incident response.

Requirements

• Track record of designing and delivering complex production distributed systems where correctness, availability, and performance are critical.
• Deep understanding of replication, partitioning, consistency, fault tolerance, durability, concurrency, and failure recovery.
• Experience defining system architecture, protocol behavior, invariants, and trade-offs in ambiguous or evolving problem spaces.
• Experience debugging concurrency bugs, data inconsistencies, partial failures, and performance bottlenecks in production.
• Proficiency writing production-quality concurrent code in Go; experience with Java, C++, or similar systems languages is welcome.
• Strong communication, cross-team technical influence, and mentoring skills.

Nice to have

• Experience designing or maintaining replication protocols or data-plane infrastructure.
• Experience with multi-cluster or multi-region architectures, including active-active or active-passive systems.
• Familiarity with database internals, log-based replication, or event-sourced systems.
• Contributions to large open-source projects or distributed systems infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work model with occasional travel for onboarding and team gatherings.
• Competitive benefits and equity.
• Flexible time off.
• Support for learning, wellness, and a home office.
• Some teams participate in an on-call rotation.