Senior Software Engineer (Distributed Systems)

Location: Mountain View, CA, USA; other locations include Bellevue, WA, USA and remote Toronto, Canada.

Base salary: $165,600–$273,400 USD per year depending on the salary zone.

Company

hirify.global develops a game engine and 3D development platform used for games, XR, web applications, and simulations across industries including automotive, manufacturing, and healthcare.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end attribution pipeline, from mobile ad interaction through data warehouse delivery and reporting signals.
• Design, build, and operate real-time ad event processing services handling terabytes of data, including enrichment, transformation, and privacy operations.
• Modernize the legacy event-handling layer with a gRPC-based service while preserving data accuracy through backfill and failover behavior.
• Improve low-latency caching and persistence services connecting auction, fill, placement, and gamer identities across the ad lifecycle.
• Build and maintain ad-serving infrastructure, including negative targeting, block listing, authentication, logging, tracing, Kafka-backed caching, health checks, readiness probes, and Docker integrations.
• Monitor data health and quality in real time, maintain BigQuery batch pipelines, and lead investigations with ML, Reporting, and external partners.

Requirements

• Strong foundation in distributed systems and systems design.
• Hands-on experience building and operating large-scale data processing systems.
• Deep understanding of exactly-once semantics, watermarking, event-time processing, stateful stream processing, checkpointing, recovery, and backpressure handling.
• Production experience with Apache Flink, Spark, Kafka, or similar technologies.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, or Scala.
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow for stream and batch coordination.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and distributed infrastructure, including Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud platforms.

Nice to have

• Experience migrating legacy systems to modern architectures in production environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, life, and disability insurance offerings vary by country and employment status.
• Commute subsidy, retirement or pension plans, employee stock ownership, and office snacks.
• Vacation and personal days, parental leave, and family-care programs.
• Mental health support, employee resource groups, and a global employee assistance program.
• Training and development programs, plus volunteering and donation matching.
• Inclusive workplace with frequent communication in English with colleagues and partners worldwide.