Software Engineer Focused on Observability (AI)

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States; hybrid

Company

hirify.global builds AI hardware and large-scale inference systems designed to deliver high-performance training and inference.

What you will do

• Design and implement observability instrumentation across services and platforms.
• Build and maintain scalable telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs, and distributed traces.
• Develop internal observability platforms, libraries, and developer tooling.
• Define and operationalize SLIs, SLOs, monitoring, and alerting strategies.
• Partner with engineers to make systems debuggable by design and reduce MTTR during incidents.
• Create actionable dashboards and alerts while balancing telemetry signal, cost, noise, and performance impact.

Requirements

• Strong experience in backend or systems software engineering.
• Proficiency in one or more of Go, C++, Rust, Java, or Python.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, networking fundamentals, concurrency, and performance tradeoffs.
• Hands-on experience with metrics, logs, distributed tracing, production monitoring, and alerting.
• Experience designing high-signal alerts, scalable telemetry pipelines, and service-level indicators and objectives.
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Elastic, Jaeger, Tempo, or similar tools.

Nice to have

• Experience with high-performance computing, AI/ML systems, or inference platforms.
• Hardware-aware observability involving accelerators, GPUs, or custom hardware.
• Prior SRE or platform engineering experience.
• Experience debugging large-scale production incidents or building internal developer platforms and shared libraries.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on an AI platform designed beyond the constraints of GPUs.
• Opportunities to publish and open-source AI research.
• Work with one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world.
• Job stability combined with startup vitality.
• Non-corporate culture focused on individual beliefs, learning, growth, and inclusion.