Senior Software Engineer (Containers)

Location: Remote in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, or Germany; the United States is preferred. Visa sponsorship and relocation are not provided.

Base salary: $157,000–$184,000 USD annually.

Company

hirify.global provides hardened, secure, production-ready builds of open-source software, including hirify.global Containers, for organizations seeking faster development, compliance, and reduced risk.

What you will do

• Design, build, and ship hirify.global Containers features, services, and build systems from initial design through production and early customer use.
• Build hardened container images, registry capabilities, image build pipelines, distribution features, and adoption tooling for engineers and AI agents.
• Own product trade-offs involving scope, sequencing, prioritization, and release readiness while working directly with Product Managers and customers.
• Use AI coding agents in development, review, and operations, and help improve their safe use.
• Investigate issues across services, customer calls, support tickets, and go-to-market data rather than limiting work to one repository.
• Maintain observability and on-call health, resolve recurring incidents, and communicate clearly through design notes, pull requests, and status updates.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience building and operating software used by paying customers, preferably in a startup or hyper-growth company.
• Strong judgment on trade-offs, high agency, urgency, comfort with ambiguity, and a systems-thinking approach.
• Daily experience using agentic coding tools, with the ability to demonstrate how they changed your output.
• Strong fundamentals in a systems language, preferably Go, plus API design, databases, caching, and cloud infrastructure on GCP or AWS.
• Working knowledge of containers, container registries, the OCI image format, and Kubernetes.
• Low-ego collaboration, reliable follow-through, and early communication when issues arise.
• Excellent written English and experience working on a distributed, remote-first team.

Nice to have

• Software supply chain security experience, including SBOMs, Sigstore signing, or SLSA.
• Familiarity with hirify.global open-source tools: Wolfi, apko, and melange.
• Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code experience.
• Authorship or contributions to open-source projects.
• A non-traditional path into engineering and experience learning by building.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first culture with team meetups, twice-yearly destination summits, and a monthly coworking, phone, and internet stipend.
• Stock options upon hire and promotion, participation in secondary offerings, and a 10-year exercise period.
• 100% company-paid health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for employees and dependents.
• Flexible time off.
• Paid parental leave: 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
• Customer-focused, action-oriented, transparent, and trust-based working principles.

Hiring process

• Include the term “DiscoTech” on the resume.
• Applications are welcomed from candidates whose experience is close but does not fulfill every requirement.