Systems Engineer, Browser Isolation

Location: Hybrid in Austin, Texas, United States. An in-person interview at a hirify.global office or hub may be required at the offer stage.

Company

hirify.global operates a global network and security platform that protects and accelerates Internet applications.

What you will do

• Own scoped browser and systems features from design and implementation through testing, rollout, and production follow-up.
• Develop and maintain C++ code in a Chromium-based browser and contribute to distributed services written in Go, Rust, and TypeScript.
• Debug browser processes, Linux hosts, and distributed services using logs, metrics, traces, and profiling tools.
• Improve session reliability, startup time, interactive latency, and resource efficiency using measurement-driven validation.
• Write maintainable code, automated tests, and design notes; participate in code and design reviews.
• Join the production on-call rotation after onboarding and contribute to incident mitigation and follow-up improvements.

Requirements

• Production software development experience with practical C++ proficiency, including memory ownership, resource lifetimes, and concurrency.
• Linux/UNIX fundamentals covering processes, threads, networking, and system-diagnosis tools.
• Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, software design, and distributed-systems concepts such as communication, retries, timeouts, partial failure, and consistency trade-offs.
• Ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases, decompose defined problems, test failure cases, and perform systematic debugging and performance analysis.
• Clear communication, collaborative problem-solving, and willingness to learn Rust, Go, TypeScript, and the rest of the stack.
• Flexibility to participate in on-call work outside standard working hours may be required.

Nice to have

• Experience with browser engines, Chromium, browser sandboxing, or security-sensitive systems.
• Low-latency streaming, graphics, remote computing, or other real-time systems experience.
• Container and workload orchestration, service discovery, Nomad, or Kubernetes.
• Rust systems programming, Go, TypeScript, WebRTC, Skia, WebAssembly, or WebGL.
• Production observability, capacity planning, incident response, or build and release infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on browser isolation technology that runs web content in remote browsers to protect users from threats.
• Collaborate across systems programming, distributed systems, security, browser engineering, and infrastructure.
• Contribute to hirify.global initiatives supporting free expression, election information, and public Internet security.
• Offer-stage candidates may be asked to attend an in-person interview at a hirify.global office or hub.
• Employment may be conditioned on authorization to receive technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.