Staff Software Engineer - Core Platform - Streaming & Storage

Location: Hybrid onsite, 3 days in office and 2 days remote, in New York, NY, Century City, CA, Aliso Viejo, CA, or San Francisco, CA.

Base annual salary: $300,000–$350,000 USD, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global operates a global marketplace for buying and selling tickets to live events, serving customers in 195 countries.

What you will do

• Own the technical strategy and architecture for streaming, messaging, NoSQL, and storage platforms supporting P0 workflows.
• Lead the migration from Azure EventHub and ServiceBus to an AWS-native, Kafka-compatible platform, including vendor selection, benchmarking, broker deployment, schema registry, and producer/consumer SDKs.
• Design and operate high-throughput infrastructure processing 10–30 billion events per day for approximately 100 service teams.
• Drive architecture reviews, observability, operational readiness, incident response, reliability, performance, and cost management for P0 systems.
• Partner with service teams on adoption through migration guides, tooling, sign-off processes, and developer experience.
• Build compliance and governance into the platform, shape the multi-year roadmap, and mentor a team of 3–5 engineers.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including several years as a technical lead for large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in event streaming and messaging with Kafka or Kafka-compatible brokers, including MSK, Confluent, Redpanda, AutoMQ, or WarpStream.
• Production infrastructure experience at scale, including high availability, incident response, performance tuning, and cost management.
• Experience with cloud data storage and NoSQL systems, including object storage, key-value stores, distributed caches, and search/indexing.
• Experience leading multi-quarter, cross-team platform migrations or programs end to end.
• Excellent communication skills for aligning leadership, partner teams, and engineers on technical direction.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers.

Nice to have

• Schema registry and compatibility tooling experience.
• Experience with lakehouse formats such as Iceberg, CDC pipelines, .NET/C#, Python, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, or OpenTelemetry.

Culture & Benefits

• Autonomy to lead experiments and tests at massive scale.
• Competitive base compensation, equity, and performance-related upside.
• Unlimited Flex Time Off.
• 401(k), health, vision, and dental insurance.
• Paid parental leave and comprehensive health benefits.