Staff Backend Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

Location: Bothell, Washington, United States. The role involves U.S. export-control and government-contract restrictions; candidates must meet applicable U.S. Person, license, or license-exception requirements.

Base salary: $152,000–$228,000 USD per year, plus bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops integrated quantum computing, networking, sensing, and security solutions delivered through cloud providers and partner platforms.

What you will do

• Build and evolve the hirify.global Cloud Platform, connecting customers with hirify.global quantum computers through APIs, tools, and AWS, GCP, and Azure integrations.
• Design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant cloud services and contribute to asynchronous job-processing pipelines from preprocessing through result delivery.
• Define API contracts and lead backend components from design through implementation and release.
• Strengthen automated testing, observability, continuous delivery, stability, and security while participating in on-call rotations and incident reviews.
• Integrate AI capabilities and use AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly, including validating generated code for correctness and security.
• Mentor engineers and drive technical alignment across infrastructure, applications, operations, product, and systems teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong experience with large-scale cloud service platforms and designing scalable, robust services in AWS, GCP, or Azure, with Kubernetes or serverless environments.
• Programming experience with languages such as Go, TypeScript, or Python, and database experience including PostgreSQL.
• Ability to design and implement critical application components including UX, APIs, services, exception handling, data access, and security.
• Experience with automated testing, production troubleshooting, observability, and AI-assisted engineering tools, including validating generated code for correctness and security.
• Track record of leading projects in cross-functional teams, with strong written, spoken communication, and collaboration skills.
• Must satisfy applicable U.S. export-control and government-contract eligibility requirements, including U.S. Person status, a necessary license, or an available license exception.

Nice to have

• 10+ years of professional full-stack software development experience.
• 3+ years of Kubernetes experience and 3+ years working with NoSQL and SQL databases.
• Experience with OAuth, OpenID, or SAML authentication.
• Prior Google Cloud Platform development, ideally on a cloud platform team at a major provider.
• Experience building job-processing pipelines for large, complex workloads such as quantum, AI, or video analytics jobs.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a fast-moving cloud platform environment with requirements that evolve alongside quantum hardware, compilers, and workloads.
• Benefits include medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO, paid holidays, parental and adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend.
• Culture emphasizes autonomy, productivity, respect, inclusion, and equal opportunity.