Staff Software Engineer - Backend Networking (Rust)

Location: Remote in the United States

Salary: $192,000

Company

hirify.global develops technology, threat intelligence, and expert services for protecting critical infrastructure through xOT cybersecurity.

What you will do

• Lead large-scale Sensor Platform initiatives covering high-throughput ingestion, pipeline scalability, continuous capture, and queue management reliability.
• Own root cause analysis and postmortems for complex production and canary issues involving capture pipelines, brokers, shutdown behavior, and message broker integrations.
• Establish documentation, test harness, observability, and performance benchmark standards across the sensor codebase.
• Translate latency, capture-interface, and reliability goals into technical plans and delivery milestones.
• Build tooling that improves production diagnosis, observability, reliability, and developer experience.
• Provide mentorship and contribute to design and code reviews across experience levels.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and debugging distributed systems software.
• Deep Rust expertise in asynchronous and concurrent programming, ownership discipline, and performance-sensitive systems design.
• Experience architecting or leading a significant systems initiative end-to-end, from design documentation through production deployment.
• Strong understanding of concurrent system design, including pipeline topologies, graceful shutdown sequencing, backpressure management, and active queue management.
• Experience with high-performance packet capture and Linux systems programming for low-latency workloads.
• Experience leading root cause analysis for complex, multi-component failures and driving durable production fixes.
• Experience with message queuing or broker systems under production load.
• Understanding of how sensor reliability and data fidelity affect detection quality in ICS/OT network monitoring.
• Experience applying cybersecurity best practices, including secure coding, data protection, and awareness of common threats and vulnerabilities.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first team working across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and APAC.
• Mission-driven environment focused on protecting critical infrastructure.
• Competitive equity package.
• Comprehensive benefits plan.
• Employment is conditional on passing a background check.