Engineering Manager II (Metadata Platform)

Location: Redwood City, California, United States; based in or willing to work from the Redwood City office at least 3 days per week

Salary: $217,000–$271,500 USD base salary per year, plus equity and benefits

Company

hirify.global provides an intelligent content management platform for collaboration, content security, workflow transformation, and enterprise AI.

What you will do

• Define platform vision and roadmaps with product management and technical leadership.
• Lead, coach, and develop an engineering team building scalable distributed systems.
• Lead the design and implementation of new metadata platform services and components.
• Drive reliability, observability, operability, efficiency, security, and compliance for scalable services.
• Strengthen engineering processes, principles, learning, continuous improvement, and blameless retrospectives.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a management role.
• Proven experience managing and scaling high-performing engineering teams in complex, large-scale production environments.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical vision and align diverse stakeholders.
• Collaborative leadership style that empowers engineers, promotes ownership, and drives accountability.
• Experience owning and operating highly available, business-critical systems.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Engineering or a related field.
• Based in or willing to work from the Redwood City office at least 3 days per week.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Elasticsearch, Solr, Lucene, or other information retrieval systems.
• Familiarity with the RAG pattern and vector or semantic search systems.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, or Azure.
• Experience deploying and operating high-volume, high-velocity microservices on Kubernetes.

Culture & Benefits

• In-person collaboration and community are core parts of the culture.
• Employees are expected to work from their assigned office a minimum of 3 days per week.
• The role is eligible for equity and benefits.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.
• hirify.global promotes an inclusive and diverse workplace.