Sr. Staff Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: HQ - Sunnyvale, United States; onsite

Salary: $232K–$278K annually

Company

hirify.global develops cybersecurity products for ransomware and breach containment, using an AI Security Graph to protect hybrid multi-cloud environments and enable Zero Trust.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture, design, and evolution of large-scale distributed systems powering the cloud platform.
• Drive technical strategy and architectural direction across multiple engineering organizations and product areas.
• Design scalable, resilient, observable backend services and resolve complex performance, availability, reliability, and security challenges.
• Establish frameworks, patterns, standards, design reviews, testing strategies, and operational-readiness practices.
• Influence decisions involving cloud-native architecture, microservices, messaging, data platforms, and service orchestration.
• Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers and align Engineering, Product Management, Security, Infrastructure, and executive stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline; an advanced degree is preferred.
• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including building large-scale backend and distributed systems.
• Experience designing and operating highly available, cloud-native platforms in production.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, including consistency models, fault tolerance, consensus, service discovery, caching, messaging, and resiliency patterns.
• Expert-level proficiency in Java and/or Go, with strong software architecture and design skills.
• Experience building and operating microservices-based architectures at scale.
• Strong knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP; experience with Kubernetes, containers, and modern cloud orchestration technologies.
• Deep understanding of API design, event-driven architectures, and service-to-service communication patterns.
• Ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority and mentor senior engineers while raising organizational engineering standards.

Nice to have

• Experience building cybersecurity, networking, or Zero Trust products.
• Open-source contributions or participation in engineering communities.
• Experience scaling globally distributed systems for enterprise customers.
• Published technical content, conference speaking, or recognized thought leadership in backend architecture and distributed systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Engineering culture focused on visionary leadership, autonomy, ownership, and technical excellence.
• Inclusive environment valuing diverse backgrounds, experiences, viewpoints, and contributions.
• Work is performed onsite at the Sunnyvale headquarters.
• Core values include building trust, running to challenges, seeking truth, leveraging differences, and bringing your best.