Staff Engineer, Data Platform

Location: Mountain View, CA, USA; remote location available in Washington, USA

Base salary: Zone A $157,800–$236,800 USD gross; Zone B $178,300–$267,500 USD gross; Zone C $200,400–$300,600 USD gross, depending on primary work location.

Company

hirify.global develops a leading game engine and enables teams in gaming, automotive, manufacturing, healthcare, and other industries to design, simulate, and collaborate in 3D.

What you will do

• Own the design, development, and evolution of scalable platform services, backend systems, and self-service tooling used across hirify.global.
• Work across distributed systems, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, observability, reliability, automation, and developer experience.
• Partner with engineering teams across Ads, infrastructure, data, and product to deliver reusable platform solutions.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership for ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple systems and teams.
• Contribute to platform patterns, technical standards, and engineering practices that improve consistency and quality.

Requirements

• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, backend services, or data platforms in production.
• Strong backend and systems engineering skills, including service design, API design, system integration, debugging, and production operations.
• Deep understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals, including scalability, reliability, fault tolerance, performance, consistency, and operational trade-offs.
• Experience building shared platforms, internal systems, or self-service infrastructure for multiple engineering teams.
• Ability to understand complex existing systems quickly, identify leverage points, and lead pragmatic improvements.
• Sufficient English proficiency for frequent professional verbal and written communication with worldwide colleagues and partners.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting data-intensive platforms or systems, including pipelines, streaming systems, storage layers, or analytics infrastructure.
• Hands-on exposure to Apache Flink, Apache Paimon, Kafka, Spark, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, or Terraform.
• Experience in advertising technology, gaming, monetization, marketplaces, or high-scale consumer platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive and innovative environment with employee resource groups and equal-opporthirify.global commitments.
• Health, life, and disability insurance, with eligibility and coverage varying by country and employment status.
• Retirement or pension plans, employee stock ownership, commute subsidy, and office food snacks.
• Generous vacation and personal days, parental leave, and family-care programs.
• Mental health and wellbeing support, global employee assistance, training and development programs, and volunteering and donation matching.