Senior Principal Software Engineer (Cortex Platform)

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States; hybrid office model

Salary: $183,600–$297,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops cybersecurity products designed to protect organizations from advanced digital threats, including the Cortex platform.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership and consultation across engineering teams.
• Drive projects from requirements gathering through design and implementation, serving as project lead or mentor.
• Align product work with product management, UX design, and engineering stakeholders.
• Design, build, and optimize scalable data models and queries using MySQL and BigQuery.
• Develop business logic and REST API endpoints with Python and Flask, and high-performance backend services with Go.
• Identify and mitigate project risks while mentoring engineers and promoting technical excellence.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 14+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on distributed, cloud-native application development.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in Python, Go, or Java and experience architecting large-scale distributed systems.
• Extensive experience with cloud development, REST APIs, databases, serverless computing, and microservices architectures.
• Hands-on experience as a technical lead or architect on complex software projects.

Nice to have

• 8+ years of hands-on experience with cloud technologies such as ElasticSearch, Google Pub/Sub, or similar.
• Understanding of public cloud design, security, global network infrastructure, and load balancing.
• Data-driven trade-off judgment and strong troubleshooting skills for isolating and resolving complex issues.
• Experience working in an agile environment with cross-functional teams to deliver full-stack products at scale.

Culture & Benefits

• Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed; this role is marked as hybrid.
• Employee benefits are available, and compensation may include restricted stock units and a bonus.
• Work is organized around collaboration, innovation, execution, integrity, and inclusion.
• Immigration sponsorship is available.