Senior Software Engineer (OpenSearch)

Location: Finland; hybrid work policy

Company

hirify.global provides a cloud data platform for open-source databases, search, streaming, and application infrastructure across multi-cloud environments.

What you will do

• Develop and improve automated management, self-healing recovery, and performance-tuning systems for OpenSearch clusters.
• Research, design, and deploy GPU-powered instances for intensive search and AI workloads.
• Develop and integrate specialized AI node types for machine learning tasks in OpenSearch.
• Own the health, reliability, service availability, and technical evolution of the OpenSearch platform.

Requirements

• Deep technical knowledge of OpenSearch or Elasticsearch internals, including resource management, indexing strategies, and query optimization.
• Experience building highly available, resilient distributed systems and solving complex operational challenges.
• Interest or experience in hardware acceleration, especially deploying and managing GPU-based instances for data services.
• Experience designing automated recovery systems and performance-tuning algorithms.
• Strong interest in vector databases, hybrid search, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).

Nice to have

• Familiarity with ML frameworks and integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) with search engines.
• Experience with a managed service or SaaS provider, or within a high-growth startup environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work policy with country-specific benefits.
• Equity plan participation.
• Choice of work equipment.
• Professional Development Plan budget for learning.
• Global Employee Assistance Program and time-off benefits, including parental, sick, and personal time.

Hiring process

• Submit a resume to apply; interviews are conducted by video call or in person, never via text or chat.