Staff Software Development Engineer (AI/ML)

Location: Hybrid role in Santa Clara, California, USA

Salary: $152,000–$190,000 USD base salary per year; excludes commission, bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global provides the Zero Trust Exchange, a cloud security platform that protects customers from cyberattacks and data loss through secure connections between users, devices, and applications.

What you will do

• Research, design, develop, and implement computer and network software for hirify.global products.
• Build, maintain, and optimize data infrastructure for large-scale batch processing and real-time workloads across distributed cloud environments.
• Design secure, high-performance database schemas, data models, APIs, and data platforms.
• Ingest and process billions of log events to deliver actionable analytics and visibility for customers and researchers.
• Enhance existing platforms through agile development, focusing on code quality, supportability, scalability, performance, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions within the relevant domain.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, plus cloud-native API and microservice development.
• Proven experience with Java, Spring Framework, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Experience building scalable batch and real-time data pipelines.
• Experience designing systems for security, scaling, multi-tenancy, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to work across architectural strategy and hands-on code execution, operate in ambiguous environments, collaborate effectively, and use data to guide engineering decisions.

Nice to have

• Ability to leverage AI technologies and workflows to drive measurable operational efficiency.
• Experience using AI tools and methodologies to accelerate the software development lifecycle and improve developer productivity.
• Technical expertise in Apache Spark for large-scale data processing.
• Practical experience with machine learning models, systems, or pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working model with an ownership, collaboration, trust, and constructive feedback culture.
• Health plans, vacation and sick time, parental leave, retirement options, education reimbursement, and in-office perks.
• Inclusive workplace with equal employment opportunities and support for reasonable accommodations.
• Full-time employment; the stated base salary excludes commission, bonus, equity, and benefits.