Staff Software Engineer, Sandbox Secrets (West Coast) (AI)

Location: Remote in the United States; candidates currently located in the Western time zone of the US or Canada are prioritized.

Salary: $170,350–$275,550 annually plus equity

Company

hirify.global builds developer tools and infrastructure including hirify.global Desktop, hirify.global Hub, hirify.global Scout, and sandboxed environments for secure agentic workflows.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and lead improvements to secrets management and credential injection systems.
• Investigate and resolve security, correctness, performance, and stability issues across cloud, macOS, Windows, and Linux.
• Collaborate with Product, peers, and adjacent teams to evolve architecture as requirements grow.
• Mentor engineers and set standards in design and code reviews.
• Engage with open-source and agentic development communities around sandboxing, MCP, and related ecosystems.
• Participate in on-call rotations, respond to critical stability issues, and document and share technical knowledge.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including demonstrated technical leadership on production systems at scale.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience building developer tools, desktop applications, or runtime infrastructure used directly by developers.
• Familiarity with the agentic software development ecosystem, including how coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex interact with their environments.
• Ability to reason about isolation and security boundaries and make safe defaults clear to users.
• Experience driving architecture and technical strategy across multiple engineers or teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfort working autonomously in a remote-first environment.

Nice to have

• Strong proficiency in Go, Rust, and/or Java.
• Experience with cryptographic key management, including key wrapping, HSMs, and cloud KMS.
• Familiarity with protecting credentials and secret material at rest and in transit.
• Understanding of networking, TLS, and HTTP.
• Understanding of OS-specific credential management capabilities.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work with offices in Seattle and Paris for connection and collaboration.
• Flexible scheduling, generous PTO, quarterly Whaleness Days, and an end-of-year Whaleness break.
• Home office support and a US$100 net monthly technology stipend.
• Annual learning and development stipend for conferences, courses, and certifications.
• Sixteen weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment, equity for full-time employees, and country-specific medical, retirement, and holiday benefits.

Hiring process

• Interview recordings may be offered for interviewer calibration; participation is optional and requires explicit consent.
• Visa sponsorship is considered case by case based on business needs.