Principal Software Development Engineer - Data Cloud

Location: Pleasanton, California, United States; Flex hybrid work with at least 50% of each quarter spent in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, or partners.

Annual base salary: $222,900–$334,300 USD for the primary Pleasanton location; additional US locations have a base pay range of $187,100–$334,300 USD.

Company

hirify.global is a Fortune 500 company and AI platform for managing people, money, and agents.

What you will do

• Build and enhance hirify.global's Data Cloud within the Data Platform Engineering organization.
• Lead an engineering team and architect features for distributed ingestion, query processing, transaction processing, and storage engines.
• Develop infrastructure for high-performance data processing across large data volumes.
• Improve the performance, scalability, reliability, simplicity, and usability of data-processing algorithms and systems.
• Develop and communicate novel technical solutions with partners and stakeholders.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience using Java, Scala, C++, Go, or Rust.
• 5+ years of development experience in relevant domains such as database internals, distributed-system applications, JVM performance tuning, or cloud/SaaS services.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a relevant field, or a master's degree in Computer Science or a relevant field.
• Background in data warehousing, database system internals, and/or distributed systems.
• Expertise in distributed data processing engines or data management systems.
• Strong understanding of SQL.
• Expertise in cloud computing services such as GCP or AWS, Kubernetes, and/or Linux.
• Expertise in one or more of Apache Spark and Spark SQL internals, Apache Iceberg and zero-copy architectures, Apache Polaris, Trino, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or DuckDB.
• Ability to lead an engineering team, articulate the value of technical solutions, and learn, teach, and develop data management and distributed data-processing systems and algorithms.

Culture & Benefits

• Flex work combines in-person and remote work, with scheduling flexibility based on business, team, and personal needs.
• Remote home-office roles may come together in hirify.global offices for important events.
• Eligible roles may include the hirify.global Bonus Plan or role-specific commission/bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
• hirify.global provides comprehensive benefits and reasonable accommodations during the application process.
• hirify.global promotes integrity, empathy, collaboration, learning, and professional development.