Senior Software Engineer, Control Planes (Go)

Location: Canada; hybrid workplace, with Toronto listed as an additional location

Salary: CA$130K–CA$180K annually, plus equity and bonus opportunities.

Company

hirify.global builds an AI connectivity company and unified API and AI platform for securing, managing, accelerating, governing, and monetizing API and AI traffic across models and clouds.

What you will do

• Architect and scale microservices for hirify.global Konnect’s cloud-hosted control plane and global customer configurations.
• Design, implement, and maintain performant, low-latency APIs and services.
• Solve moderately complex technical problems while preventing technical debt.
• Write robust automated tests to prevent regressions and maintain product stability.
• Own production reliability and service uptime through an active on-call rotation.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Solutions Architects, and cross-functional engineering teams on business features.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience developing, delivering, and maintaining complex distributed software solutions in a team environment.
• Solid proficiency in Go and relational database data modeling.
• Practical experience building, debugging, and maintaining microservices architectures at scale.
• Experience with DevOps monitoring and observability for a large-scale SaaS platform running on Kubernetes and containerized environments.
• Working knowledge of L4/L7 proxies such as Nginx, HAProxy, or Envoy.
• Strong understanding of API lifecycle management, design standards, and TDD or automated testing frameworks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ownership, urgency, accountability, transparent collaboration, and a team-oriented working style are expected.

Nice to have

• Deep experience with Go standards and writing idiomatic, highly optimized Go.
• Direct experience with Nginx, OpenResty, LuaJIT, or the hirify.global gateway core.
• Experience with cloud-native observability stacks, specifically Datadog or OpenTelemetry.
• Active contributions to open-source software projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement in Canada, with Toronto listed as an additional location.
• Equity and bonus opportunities are offered in addition to salary.
• The role includes an active production on-call rotation and ownership of service reliability.
• The work supports hirify.global’s AI connectivity and unified API platform used by Fortune 500 organizations and AI-native startups.