Senior Software Engineer (Pentest Experience)

Location: US, Remote; up to 10% travel may be required for project kickoffs and the annual company meeting.

Base salary range: $200,000–$235,000 per year, plus equity for full-time roles.

Company

hirify.global is a remote cybersecurity product company developing the NodeZero platform for production-safe autonomous penetration testing and assessment operations.

What you will do

• Build and ship product capabilities across backend services, APIs, and modern web application stacks.
• Own moderate-to-large projects from scoping and technical design through implementation, rollout, and iteration.
• Develop clear, maintainable, performant user-facing experiences aligned with product requirements and design direction.
• Partner with Product, Design, and adjacent engineering teams on cross-functional initiatives.
• Identify technical risks, blockers, and poorly scoped work; contribute to architecture, operability, and long-term maintainability.
• Write code, tests, and documentation; conduct code reviews and mentor less experienced engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong professional experience building and operating production software across the full application stack and independently driving substantial work from requirements through delivery.
• Experience building distributed backend services with at least one modern language such as Python, Go, Rust, Java, or TypeScript.
• Experience building backend services on AWS, GCP, or Azure, with familiarity with Docker and containerized applications.
• Experience designing and operating APIs, services, asynchronous or event-driven systems, SQL-based relational databases, data models, and persistence layers.
• Experience applying observability, reliability, and operational best practices to production services.
• Frontend development experience using modern JavaScript or TypeScript with React, Angular, or a similar framework.
• Strong communication, technical judgment, pragmatic problem-solving, product-minded thinking, and the ability to balance competing priorities across workstreams.

Nice to have

• PostgreSQL experience and performance tuning for large datasets.
• Experience with graph databases such as Neo4j, GraphQL backends, ETL pipelines, or data-processing tools.
• Experience in vulnerability management, exposure management, security telemetry, or related cybersecurity domains.
• Experience with scoring or recommendation algorithms and data-intensive products.
• Experience partnering with product managers to define and sequence an MVP.
• Experience shaping technical direction beyond a single team or domain.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with occasional in-person project kickoffs and an annual company meeting; up to 10% travel may be required.
• Collaborative, respectful, inclusive culture focused on ownership, learning, and results.
• Health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and families.
• Flexible vacation policy and generous parental leave.
• Career development opportunities and an innovative environment that encourages creativity.

Hiring process

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