Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Location: San Francisco, California, United States; other locations include Atlanta, Seattle, and Bellevue. Office tech-flexible workplace.

Base salary: $197,300–$313,700 annually; in select San Francisco and New York City metropolitan areas, $237,700–$344,700 annually. Base salary excludes bonuses, equity, incentives, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a workplace platform within Salesforce, building AI-forward products and data infrastructure that support customer and employee workflows.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate reliable, scalable data infrastructure for analytics, machine learning, and data-driven decision-making.
• Own uptime, reliability, and performance for core analytics and compute services, including Pinot, Trino, Airflow, Spark on Kubernetes, EMR, and Hive Metastore.
• Scale batch and streaming ingestion, real-time analytics, transformation, storage, compute, and orchestration systems.
• Build automation and self-service tools that help data teams adopt and manage workflows.
• Improve security, cost efficiency, developer experience, observability, monitoring, and alerting using Grafana and related tooling.
• Define technical standards, collaborate with data engineering, platform, and security teams, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience, including work with data-intensive systems or data platforms.
• Experience building, deploying, and operating distributed infrastructure at scale.
• Strong background with EMR, Airflow, Pinot, Trino, Hive Metastore, Kubernetes, or equivalent technologies.
• Proficiency in Python, Golang, Bash, SQL, CI/CD with GitHub Actions, Vault, Terraform, Chef, and Grafana.
• Deep understanding of infrastructure reliability, observability, cost efficiency, and data engineering workflows.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience building, managing, and integrating agentic workflows, custom AI skills, automated software factory pipelines, or MCP.

Culture & Benefits

• Positive, diverse, supportive, curious, inventive, and collaborative environment.
• Focus on craftsmanship, reliability, ownership, and empowering others.
• Medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, and paid time off.
• 401(k) and employee stock purchasing program.
• Reasonable accommodations are available during the application and recruiting process.