Sr. Software Engineer (Go)

Location: New York, United States. Hybrid schedule with a minimum of four days per week in the office.

Salary: $120,000–$170,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is a global media and entertainment company producing and distributing film, television, streaming, news, sports, and theme park content through brands including Peacock, NBC, Bravo, and Universal Pictures.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance software systems primarily in Go for large-scale video content delivery.
• Build reliable services supporting VOD, live events, linear channels, dynamic ad insertion, and manifest manipulation.
• Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineering to design highly available, resilient, performant, and fault-tolerant systems.
• Use metrics, logs, traces, and performance analytics for proactive issue detection and root-cause analysis.
• Contribute to multi-CDN strategies, routing logic, origin workflows, system architecture, and engineering best practices.
• Participate in code reviews and collaborate with engineers across the US, UK, EU, and Africa.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with hands-on Go development; Python experience is also relevant.
• Experience deploying and operating applications in cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, Git-based repositories, automated testing, and build pipelines.
• Experience with SRE concepts including SLIs/SLOs, auto-scaling, distributed systems reliability, or incident response.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and familiarity with Agile methodologies.

Nice to have

• Experience with CDNs such as Akamai, CloudFront, Fastly, or Cloudflare.
• Knowledge of video streaming technologies including HLS, DASH, manifests, origins, and content routing.
• Experience with global-scale systems, multi-region deployments, or high-availability architectures.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive culture focused on respect, authenticity, collaboration, and community impact.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, discounts, and other benefits.
• Collaboration with distributed engineering teams across multiple regions.

Hiring process

• External candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview at an hirify.global location before a hiring decision.