Senior Software Engineer (Reliability)

Location: Redwood City, California, United States

Salary: $198,500–$248,000 USD annually, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global provides intelligent content management software that helps organizations manage content, secure information, collaborate, and transform business workflows with enterprise AI.

What you will do

• Assess service designs with product and platform engineering teams for scalability and performance risks.
• Analyze production workloads, system metrics, and load-test results to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and architectural limits.
• Design load-testing, capacity-modeling, and performance-validation frameworks.
• Improve backend service efficiency, API response times, resource utilization, scaling strategies, and autoscaling policies.
• Build automation and tooling that integrates performance validation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead performance incident root-cause analysis and contribute to observability standards including SLIs, SLOs, latency budgets, and error budgets.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, performance engineering, or site reliability engineering, focused on backend systems and scalability.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Go or Java, with an emphasis on performant services.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, resource contention, and efficient system design.
• Hands-on experience analyzing and improving performance across compute, storage, database, and networking layers.
• Familiarity with load-testing and benchmarking tools such as Locust, JMeter, Gatling, or custom frameworks.
• Experience with AWS or GCP and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency with observability and telemetry tools such as Prometheus, Chronosphere, Grafana, Datadog, or ELK.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, collaboration, and communication skills, including cross-team reliability work.

Nice to have

• Experience with Istio, Envoy, and cloud-native networking performance optimization.
• Experience with capacity planning, cost optimization, and long-term cloud resource forecasting.
• Familiarity with incident response, post-incident reviews, and reliability improvement practices.
• Experience contributing to internal platforms, developer tooling, or performance automation frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Agile Scrum methodology with Jira, Confluence, GitHub Enterprise, and Git.
• Employment includes equity and benefits.
• hirify.global is committed to diversity, inclusion, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodations during the application and interview process.