System Engineer (Behavioral Analysis)

Location: Hybrid in Austin, Texas or New York

Estimated base salary: $136,000–$187,000 in Austin, Texas; $150,000–$206,000 in New York

Company

hirify.global operates a global network and security platform that protects and accelerates Internet applications through services including secure access, network connectivity, data protection, and DNS.

What you will do

• Build production behavioral detections using Access, Gateway, DNS, device posture, and data protection telemetry.
• Define detection data dependencies, evaluation methods, and signal-quality assessment before release.
• Connect detection outputs with event history, logs, and customer-facing investigations to clarify risk findings and user-risk changes.
• Architect, deploy, and maintain highly available, low-latency, horizontally scalable distributed systems.
• Collaborate with Product and engineering teams to define event contracts and deliver end-to-end functionality.
• Participate in architecture reviews, capacity planning, monitoring, and reliability improvements.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience building, testing, and operating backend or distributed systems in production.
• Strong proficiency in at least one systems programming language, such as Go, Rust, C, or C++.
• 3+ years of practical experience with databases and data-intensive services, such as PostgreSQL or ClickHouse.
• Experience with event-driven systems, including message delivery, duplicate or late events, state, failure recovery, and safe changes to live consumers or APIs.
• Experience using metrics, logs, traces, profiling, and experiments to understand production behavior and validate improvements.
• Clear written and verbal communication with the ability to make technical decisions with Product and engineering partners.

Nice to have

• Experience with security analytics, fraud or abuse detection, identity, Zero Trust, SASE, or network telemetry.
• Familiarity with Kafka, Kubernetes, and high-volume event processing.
• Experience with statistical baselines, anomaly detection, time-windowed aggregation, false-positive analysis, or detection coverage evaluation.
• Familiarity with DNS, HTTP, authentication events, data-loss-prevention signals, or endpoint-security integrations.
• Experience with distributed state, caches, object storage, or safe migration of legacy production services.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a mission-driven environment focused on protecting the free and open Internet.
• Applicants who reach the offer stage may be asked to attend an in-person interview at a hirify.global office or hub.
• Employment may be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
• hirify.global provides reasonable accommodations during the application process.