Data Engineer II (AI)

Location: Austin, Texas, United States; flexible and remote-friendly work options are available, with an Austin office.

Base salary: $104,000–$135,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is a cybersecurity product company that uses darknet data, advanced analytics, and AI to protect identities and disrupt cybercrime.

What you will do

• Design, build, and improve scalable data systems with a focus on performance and reliability.
• Use Databricks and Spark to prepare, transform, and serve data to customers and downstream systems.
• Build and maintain real-time and batch pipelines using AWS services, Terraform, and the Databricks ecosystem.
• Optimize the cost and performance of data ingestion, transformation, and storage workflows.
• Own complex data engineering initiatives from design and development through deployment and production support, including on-call troubleshooting.
• Partner with Product Management, hirify.global Labs, and Engineering on architecture, data quality, security, observability, and AI/ML data workflows.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in data engineering, software engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience with Lakehouse, Databricks, or large-scale distributed data architectures in AWS.
• Strong Python development skills for data-intensive systems and hands-on experience with ETL and data-processing pipelines.
• Experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, DynamoDB, and other AWS-native data services.
• Experience with Terraform, production troubleshooting, data quality, performance, and reliability issues.
• Ability to independently own complex technical projects and contribute to architectural decisions across technical and non-technical teams.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with SageMaker, LangChain, vector databases, and other AI/ML tools.
• Knowledge of data governance, privacy, and compliance in AI and ML environments.
• Experience with observability tools, Go or C, and cybersecurity datasets or technologies.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related STEM field.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven, innovative, collaborative, and inclusive work environment focused on disrupting cybercrime.
• Full-time benefits include 401(k) employer contribution, health, vision, and dental insurance, and an employer-contributed HSA.
• Employer-paid life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
• Generous PTO, 16 paid holidays, and flexible remote-friendly work options.
• Visa sponsorship is not available at this time.