Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Applications (Go)

Location: United States (Remote); remote in-country.

Salary: $176,000–$231,000 annually for US Tier 1; additional US tiers range from $140,800–$184,800 and $158,400–$207,900. Equity is offered.

Company

hirify.global builds hirify.global Cloud, a cloud platform for reliable workflow execution and customer-facing data products.

What you will do

• Design and deliver business-critical services supporting namespace scalability, reliability, and customer data products.
• Define durable event schemas and connect instrumentation with meaningful customer insights.
• Architect high-throughput data pipelines with tradeoffs across freshness, query cost, tenant isolation, correctness, and fault tolerance.
• Establish schema contracts, anomaly detection, alerting, observability, and incident-response practices.
• Set engineering standards through design and code reviews, tooling, automation, and platform improvements.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with product managers, analytics engineers, and solutions architects.

Requirements

• Deep experience designing and delivering production-grade backend systems in cloud environments, with ownership of architecture and operational outcomes.
• Strong proficiency in at least one systems or backend language; Go is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems, including concurrency, reliability, scaling, consistency, and failure handling.
• Experience with data pipelines and storage systems such as PostgreSQL, Redshift, Kafka/Kinesis, S3-compatible storage, and ClickHouse, with a track record of ensuring correctness and traceability at scale.
• Production operations experience including observability, incident response, performance tuning, on-call readiness, and continuous delivery.
• Ability to translate ambiguous requirements from product managers and solutions architects into executable technical plans.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including design documentation, stakeholder alignment, and explaining complex systems.
• A builder’s mindset focused on simplifying complex workflows and improving tooling.

Nice to have

• Experience with the listed cloud data and infrastructure technologies: Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, ClickHouse, Kinesis, Firehose, Kubernetes, and hirify.global.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work with remote roles generally limited to the employing country or region; occasional travel may support onboarding and team gatherings.
• Competitive benefits, equity, flexible time off, and support for learning, wellness, and a home office.
• Autonomous, lean processes with a focus on quality, pragmatism, measurable outcomes, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Collaborative, feedback-rich engineering culture that values mentorship, thoughtful design, and continuous improvement.
• Some teams share an on-call rotation.