Staff Software Engineer (Simulation)

Location: San Francisco, United States; onsite Monday through Thursday, with remote or office work available on Fridays. On-call responsibilities are performed remotely.

Salary: $174,500–$236,000 base salary; expected midpoint on hire: $205,000.

Company

hirify.global develops Second Life, a user-driven virtual world and platform for creation, connection, and social interaction.

What you will do

• Lead technical discovery, design, implementation, and difficult debugging across large C++ codebases and adjacent systems.
• Own complex technical problems from definition through production and develop durable solutions.
• Design initiatives spanning multiple systems, codebases, and engineering teams.
• Guide architectural decisions that improve reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Identify systemic issues, architectural risks, and second-order operational effects.
• Mentor engineers and clarify technical tradeoffs with engineering, product, and other stakeholders.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years with real-time simulation, game-server, distributed, or similarly complex production systems.
• 3+ years of production experience with a large C++ codebase and strong knowledge of memory management, threading, synchronization, and concurrent systems.
• Experience operating reliable services across multiple codebases and domains, including cloud infrastructure, containerized services, asynchronous network programming, and Python or shell scripting.
• Ability to diagnose production issues such as crashes, memory corruption, race conditions, and difficult-to-reproduce failures.
• Staff-level technical leadership, system design communication, cross-team influence, and engineering mentorship.
• Ability to work onsite in San Francisco Monday through Thursday is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with interpreters, virtual machines, embedded scripting engines, bytecode runtimes, sandboxed execution, APIs, or long-term serialization formats.
• Familiarity with virtual worlds, MMO or game-server architecture, Second Life, LSL, or Lua.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on Second Life, an established virtual-world platform with more than 20 years of history.
• Collaborative in-office environment focused on technical discussion, creativity, and cross-team problem-solving.
• Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
• Eligibility for awards under the Equity Incentive Plan.
• Ergonomic workstations and reasonable workplace accommodations are provided.

Hiring process

• Talent partners provide additional details about compensation and benefits during the hiring process.