Forward Deployed Reliability Engineer

Location: Hybrid role supporting a government contract in Washington, DC; active Secret clearance required.

Salary: $220,000–$230,000 USD annually.

Company

hirify.global provides IT services and solutions to the Federal Government and commercial customers, including data delivery and analytics, cybersecurity, cloud migration, applications and infrastructure, and software development.

What you will do

• Keep mission-critical data workflows running for a U.S. Government customer.
• Participate in assigned on-call weeks and respond to critical outages before they affect users.
• Perform root-cause analysis and document fixes for reuse by others.
• Turn operational lessons into scripts, automation, and product improvements.

Requirements

• Active Secret security clearance.
• Background in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or another technical field.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, and SQL.
• Familiarity with parallel data processing and optimizing Spark jobs.
• Experience with root-cause analysis and documenting reusable fixes.
• Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Availability to respond to critical outages during assigned on-call weeks.

Nice to have

• Experience optimizing large-scale distributed PySpark builds or distributed compute with Polars or Pandas.
• Experience debugging legacy code written by others.
• Ability to own problems end to end with little oversight and prioritize competing issues.
• Java or C++ software development experience.
• TypeScript and data-platform experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employee position with a competitive compensation package and M9 benefits.
• Work supports a Federal Government customer through a government contract.
• Inclusive workplace that values diverse perspectives and supports veterans, transitioning service members, military spouses, and dependents.
• hirify.global is a small business with more than 15 years of delivery and growth experience.