Threat Investigation Engineer (Backend/Platform)

Location: Remote

Compensation: $160,000–$200,000 per year

Company

hirify.global provides safety and threat-intelligence systems, adversarial red teaming, model evaluations, and intelligence collection for AI labs, major companies, and technology platforms.

What you will do

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services and AI-assisted applications supporting threat investigation workflows.
• Work directly with investigators to understand operational challenges and translate requirements into practical engineering solutions.
• Build and integrate AI-powered features, REST APIs, and services that improve investigation efficiency, accuracy, and reliability.
• Troubleshoot production failures, processing delays, data inconsistencies, and system errors across backend services, data pipelines, and AI-assisted workflows.
• Improve reliability and observability through monitoring, logging, automated testing, documentation, and operational tooling.
• Participate in rotating on-call coverage, including weekends and holidays, and own engineering work from problem definition through deployment and maintenance.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering experience in Python and backend application development.
• Experience with platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or production operations.
• Experience building, deploying, debugging, and maintaining production software systems.
• Familiarity with REST APIs, backend services, asynchronous processing, and system integrations.
• Practical experience with AI-powered applications, LLM APIs, or model-assisted development tools.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills, including investigating unfamiliar systems and resolving complex production issues.
• Experience supporting production environments through monitoring, incident response, and reliability improvements.
• Ability to scope technical problems independently, prioritize work, and deliver maintainable solutions; strong communication with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Sound judgment when handling sensitive information, operational incidents, and time-sensitive technical challenges.
• Availability for scheduled on-call coverage, including weekends and holidays.

Nice to have

• Experience with asynchronous job processing, background workers, task queues, or distributed systems.
• Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud infrastructure and services.
• Experience building internal tools, workflow automation, or investigator-facing applications.
• Familiarity with observability tools, structured logging, alerting, and incident management practices.
• Experience in cybersecurity, trust and safety, threat intelligence, or other high-stakes operational environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work arrangement.
• One-year contract with full-time, 40-hour-per-week schedule.
• Rotating on-call coverage includes weekends and holidays.
• Work supports sensitive safety and threat investigations and may involve potentially distressing case information.