Sr Software Development Engineer (Data Lifecycle Management)

Location: Dublin, Ireland; Flex work with at least 50% of each quarter spent in the office or in the field

Base salary: €86,400–€129,600 EUR per year in Ireland

Company

hirify.global is a Fortune 500 company and AI platform for managing people, money, and agents.

What you will do

• Define and drive the technical strategy for Data Lifecycle Management within Deployment Technology.
• Design and build systems for data retention, archival, tiering, purge/deletion, backup and restore, and migration.
• Identify scalability bottlenecks and systemic risks across data retention pipelines and deployment processes, then design mitigations across services and release trains.
• Lead standardization and continuous improvement of data lifecycle tooling and deployment processes.
• Facilitate technical design reviews and architecture discussions with engineering and product stakeholders.
• Provide technical updates on system health, deployment readiness, compliance milestones, and risk mitigation; mentor engineers and shape engineering practices.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software development engineering experience architecting, building, and scaling robust software systems, ideally including data management, storage systems, or deployment/release engineering.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong algorithmic thinking with expertise in data structures, graph algorithms, and dynamic programming applied to large-scale retention, archival, and purge/deletion problems.
• Experience designing and building scalable distributed APIs and services for data lifecycle states across large multi-tenant systems, using REST and modern versioning practices.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and orchestration or automation tooling for safely deploying data lifecycle changes at scale.
• Proficiency in unit, integration, and performance testing for data pipelines and deployment systems, using industry-standard testing frameworks.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design, design patterns, and SOLID principles applied to scalable data management and deployment architectures.
• Familiarity with data governance, compliance, privacy requirements, retention policies, right-to-be-forgotten/deletion, and audit trails.
• Proficiency in modern programming languages and development methodologies, including Agile and CI/CD; experience with source control and advanced branching and merging strategies for coordinated multi-service deployments.
• Ability to collaborate in a software development team, mentor junior engineers, and produce comprehensive technical documentation covering system designs and architecture decisions.

Culture & Benefits

• Flex work combines in-person collaboration with remote work, with at least half of each quarter spent in the office or with customers, prospects, and partners in the field.
• Eligible roles may receive participation in the hirify.global Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus.
• Eligible employees may receive annual refresh stock grants.
• hirify.global provides reasonable accommodations during the hiring process and considers qualified applicants under applicable Fair Chance laws.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace.