Senior Backend & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (AI)

Location: San Francisco, USA; onsite

Company

hirify.global is building an AI-powered consumer platform for creating, remixing, sharing, and playing interactive content, combining AI, consumer social, and interactive entertainment.

What you will do

• Own the architecture, development, and evolution of core backend services in Python or Go.
• Design and build high-performance, highly available RESTful and gRPC APIs for high-traffic consumer features and AI/LLM workloads.
• Design and tune asynchronous task processing and message queues, including Kafka, Celery, and SQS.
• Plan, build, and govern AWS infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring, logging, alerting, and CI/CD.
• Lead incident response, on-call troubleshooting, postmortems, capacity planning, autoscaling, and disaster recovery improvements.
• Own cloud cost and security, including least-privilege IAM, multi-account management, network access, reusable services, middleware, and internal tools.

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend development experience, including at least 2 years in cloud or infrastructure work.
• Strong proficiency in Python or Go and hands-on experience building large projects with FastAPI, Django, or Gin.
• Production experience designing, operating, and optimizing costs for AWS infrastructure.
• Experience with Docker, ECS or Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Strong MySQL or PostgreSQL schema design and performance-tuning skills; familiarity with Redis, Kafka, Nginx, and other common middleware.
• Strong production debugging skills, including on-call and postmortem experience.
• Ability to communicate effectively and own projects end to end, from design through launch.

Nice to have

• Backend experience with AI/LLM applications, including model integration, agent systems, or LLM cost and reliability management.
• Experience supporting large-scale, high-traffic consumer products.
• Multi-cloud experience with AWS and GCP, cloud migration, account consolidation, or BigQuery and similar data platforms.
• Knowledge of networking and security, including VPN, zero trust, and compliance.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role within the Technical Staff department.
• Early-stage, Series A startup environment with end-to-end ownership and flexibility to explore new ideas.
• Top-tier market salary and competitive equity.
• Full health insurance.
• AI-native team focused on consumer social and interactive entertainment products.