Staff Software Engineer (PostgreSQL)

Location: 100% remote from anywhere in the U.S. In-person office hubs are available in Boston, New York City, and Paris.

Salary: $170,000–$190,000 per year in the U.S., plus equity, PTO, and other benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops at-home EEG and cardiopulmonary signal platforms for neurological, psychiatric, sleep, and other brain-related clinical development and diagnostic applications.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture and design of complex systems within the Datastore platform.
• Design and scale PostgreSQL data models, Kafka-driven event pipelines, GraphQL APIs, and third-party integrations.
• Own dataset snapshot pipelines that deliver clinical data to the warehouse.
• Translate requirements from product, scientific, clinical, platform, and application stakeholders into scalable services and APIs.
• Debug and profile cross-system issues while improving structure, test coverage, tooling, documentation, and operational dashboards.
• Write RFCs, make technical trade-offs, mentor engineers, and guide team planning and engineering practices.

Requirements

• 7+ years of backend development experience, including at least 3 years with data platforms and backend infrastructure.
• Strong SQL and production PostgreSQL experience, including schema design, indexes, query plans, performance tuning, and row-level security.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka or an equivalent event-streaming and processing system.
• Proficiency in Julia or Python, with willingness to learn Julia if needed.
• Experience operating containerized services, with familiarity with Kubernetes and Terraform or Helm.
• Experience mentoring engineers, collaborating across disciplines, communicating asynchronously, and working effectively in remote teams.

Nice to have

• GraphQL and TypeScript/JavaScript with Node.
• Experience designing event-driven pipelines with replay, idempotency, and backpressure handling.
• Deep PostgreSQL operations experience, including migrations, replication, backups, connection pooling, vacuum behavior, and extensions.
• Experience with LLM-assisted or agentic coding tools in production.

Culture & Benefits

• Asynchronous work practices support a remote-first experience.
• Work focuses on data infrastructure for clinical and scientific health applications.
• Benefits include equity, PTO, and additional compensation components.
• The organization values curiosity, simplicity, composability, self-service, empathy, and diverse perspectives.