Senior Backend Cloud Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: Remote, US

Base salary: $120,000–$170,000 per year; bonus target: 10%

Company

hirify.global develops an adaptive cybersecurity platform combining proprietary prevention engines and AI models to stop ransomware for mid-market and enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Lead feature design and delivery across data platform and public API services, including security-data ingestion, transformation, and enrichment.
• Drive system architecture, data-flow decisions, design reviews, and code reviews with product and platform engineering.
• Build, deploy, and own reliable, secure, and performant Scala backend services in production.
• Help migrate selected APIs from Scala to Rust while maintaining consistency and continuity.
• Set standards for code quality, documentation, and operational excellence; participate in on-call and incident response.
• Support Python-based security analysis capabilities, including malware analysis engines, automated threat detection, and machine-learning workflows.

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, including recent experience with a JVM-based codebase.
• Track record of designing and owning distributed systems end to end.
• Experience with Rust, or a well-formed perspective on when Rust is appropriate, and the ability to guide a migration.
• Strong understanding of APIs, Kafka messaging systems, and modern data stores including Postgres, DynamoDB, and OpenSearch.
• Experience building services in a cloud-native environment, preferably AWS.
• Working knowledge of containers and Kubernetes.
• Comfort working in a remote-first, asynchronous team environment.

Nice to have

• Functional programming patterns and idiomatic Scala.
• Databricks, ClickHouse, or similar lakehouse and analytical/OLAP data stores.
• Terraform, Helm, and GitHub Actions.
• Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch observability tools.
• Experience with security products, data pipelines, or high-availability systems.
• Python development for security analysis tools and malware detection frameworks, including YARA, PE analysis, or binary analysis.
• Machine-learning workflows, AutoML, and MLflow for model deployment and management.
• Binary analysis libraries such as LIEF, ssdeep, and TLSH, and security-tooling integration.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-native, completely distributed global team with a remote-first, asynchronous working environment.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision healthcare with premiums fully paid for employees and dependents.
• 401(k) with employer contribution, short- and long-term disability coverage, life and AD&D insurance, and medical and dependent-care FSA options.
• Flexible PTO, parental leave, and equity offering.
• Benefits are available to eligible employees and may be modified by the company.