Staff / Principal Software Engineer (Cloud Platform & SaaS)

Location: United States

Salary: $140,000–$215,000 USD per year when based in Boston, Chicago, New York, Austin, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle, Washington, or Dallas.

Company

hirify.global delivers a cloud-native distributed SQL database that unifies transactions and analytics for real-time, data-intensive applications. The company is venture-backed and headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, India, Ireland, and Ukraine.

What you will do

• Architect, implement, and scale multi-tenant Kubernetes operators, custom controllers, and orchestration workflows for thousands of customer database clusters.
• Develop performant, fault-tolerant backend services and cloud control planes using Go and Python.
• Design cross-cloud networking, ingress and egress controls, multi-region routing, VPC peering, PrivateLink topologies, DNS architectures, and service mesh performance across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Build compute, vector indexing, caching, storage, and ingestion infrastructure for real-time GenAI and vector workloads.
• Diagnose complex production failures, performance bottlenecks, kernel and networking anomalies, and other Tier-3 escalations, dedicating approximately 10–20% of bandwidth to operational support.
• Author RFCs and ADRs, mentor senior engineers, lead cross-functional reviews, and align roadmap priorities with Product and SRE teams while maintaining controls for SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS environments.

Requirements

• 8–12+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, deploying, and operating distributed enterprise SaaS platforms at scale.
• Hands-on mastery of Kubernetes internals, CRDs, custom controller development using client-go or controller-runtime, scheduling dynamics, and container networking and runtime internals.
• Expert proficiency in Go and Python, including concurrent programming, low-latency I/O, and distributed state management.
• Deep operational knowledge of cloud networking constructs, including Transit Gateways, DirectConnect or ExpressRoute, Private Service Connect, CIDR subnetting, mTLS, and load balancing.
• Practical familiarity with compute, caching, and storage dynamics for real-time AI/ML pipelines, retrieval-augmented generation, and vector embeddings.
• Proven ability to debug complex, non-deterministic production bugs across network layers, memory allocations, and distributed consensus.
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills, with experience driving cross-team alignment and influencing executive-level technical strategy.

Nice to have

• Experience building managed database-as-a-service or data-intensive streaming infrastructure.
• Active open-source contributions within the CNCF or cloud-native container ecosystem.
• Familiarity with Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with diverse teams and a diverse range of people.
• Roles are offered across a variety of locations in the United States.
• Total compensation may include merit increases and annual bonuses for eligible roles.