Senior Software Engineer (Python)

Location: Remote (United States)

Salary: $150,000–$184,500 base salary, plus annual bonus potential, equity participation, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops an AI platform centered on open-source Python, data science, package security, and enterprise AI innovation.

What you will do

• Design and build features for the internal package build system.
• Review code and coach teammates on architecture, security, and maintainability.
• Write design documents and architecture proposals that communicate tradeoffs.
• Diagnose production incidents, fix root causes, and prevent recurrence.
• Partner with Security, Platform Infrastructure, IT, and Product teams on build and access issues.
• Use AI tooling to automate repetitive work and mentor engineers on platform decisions, systems thinking, and ownership.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong Python expertise and deep core engineering fundamentals.
• Experience building or maintaining infrastructure, platform tooling, or DevOps systems with an SRE or operational mindset.
• Ability to write technical design documents, architecture proposals, and detailed code reviews that clearly communicate tradeoffs.
• Ability to independently diagnose complex system issues, propose solutions, and drive them to completion.
• Track record of coaching or mentoring engineers through technical decisions and growth opportunities.
• Proficiency with AI-powered development tools while maintaining strong engineering fundamentals.

Nice to have

• Experience in fast-paced startup or scale-up environments.
• Experience with open-source ecosystems, package management, or build and release engineering.
• Hands-on experience with AWS or Azure, Kubernetes, or ArgoCD.
• Experience at an AI-focused or data science company, including security and reliability for automated workloads.
• Curiosity about the rationale and tradeoffs behind requests, with willingness to challenge timing or scope.
• Commitment to inclusive collaboration and the stated values of clarity, care, candor, ownership, and teamwork.

Culture & Benefits

• High-performance environment where results are recognized and rewarded.
• Collaborative culture with diverse, thoughtful discussion and employee-first support.
• Flexible hours and a fully remote setup.
• Flexible vacation, medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage, paid parental leave, wellness stipend, employee assistance, and mental health resources.

Hiring process

• Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis until the role is filled; the application deadline is December 28, 2026.