Senior Software Engineer (Secret Clearance Eligible)

Location: Remote, or hybrid/on-site at the office in northwest Austin, Texas, United States; approximately 10% travel expected. US citizenship and eligibility and willingness to obtain a Secret US security clearance are required.

Base salary: $160,000–$200,000 per year, plus equity grants and cash bonuses.

Company

hirify.global develops AI systems and assurance software that monitors model performance, manages drift, and supports reliable production use, including federal government applications.

What you will do

• Build and maintain software supporting AI systems in real-world production use cases.
• Design and develop performant, scalable services using cloud-neutral and microservices-oriented approaches.
• Optimize, deploy, and refine AI models and algorithms.
• Lead the software development lifecycle from product requirements and technical design through implementation and deployment.
• Collaborate cross-functionally and participate in or lead design discussions.
• Share knowledge, mentor engineers, support onboarding, and conduct code reviews.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or similar experience.
• 6–8 years of hands-on software development experience.
• Excellence in Go, C++ 17 or higher, Java 11 or higher, C# 9 or higher, or Rust, plus proficiency in Python.
• Experience with DevOps technologies including CI/CD tools, Git, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with commercial cloud architecture and OpenStack.
• Experience designing and developing performant, scalable services.
• Familiarity with relational and non-relational database design and architecture.
• Ability to work cross-functionally, lead software development independently, and contribute to technical design discussions.
• Experience with software development principles including object-oriented programming, design patterns, documentation, and agile methodologies.
• US citizenship with eligibility and willingness to obtain a Secret US security clearance.

Nice to have

• Expertise in synchronous/asynchronous programming and concurrency.
• Experience integrating deep learning libraries such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Experience designing RESTful, gRPC, or GraphQL APIs.
• Expertise in networked and distributed computing.
• Experience with messaging systems such as NATS, Kafka, or RabbitMQ.
• Experience with workflow automation.
• Active Secret or higher US security clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work, or hybrid/on-site work from the Austin office.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Voluntary life, long-term disability, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance.
• HSA and FSA plans, including dependent care FSA.
• 401(k) plan, unlimited PTO, and paid parental leave.
• Trust, respectful candor, ownership, and collaborative knowledge sharing are emphasized.