Staff Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote (United States)

Base salary: $189,500–$238,500 per year, plus annual bonus potential, equity participation, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops an enterprise AI platform and open-source solutions for Python, data science, and AI, serving millions of users and enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Set technical strategy for vulnerability remediation from CVE intake through release, making risk-based decisions on patching, backporting, upgrades, and mitigations.
• Architect and build remediation infrastructure covering build and test pipelines, vulnerability scanning, signing, SBOM generation, and VEX documentation.
• Lead remediation of critical CVEs involving deep dependency chains and ABI-sensitive packages.
• Improve reliability, observability, access controls, and automation across build and release infrastructure.
• Define remediation SLAs and metrics, write design documents, diagnose infrastructure failures, and guide cross-team implementation.
• Partner with upstream open-source maintainers and use AI-powered development tools to accelerate triage, patch analysis, testing, and code review.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 5+ years in infrastructure, platform engineering, release engineering, or security remediation.
• Strong Python expertise and deep experience with C/C++ or other compiled languages, native build systems, and ABI debugging.
• Hands-on packaging and build experience with conda, Python wheels, or Linux distribution packaging.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD, build, or release infrastructure at scale with an SRE mindset.
• Strong command of CVE/CVSS frameworks, exploitability analysis, vulnerability scanning, and supply chain security concepts including SBOM, VEX, SLSA, signing, and provenance.
• Track record of leading large cross-team technical initiatives and influencing outcomes without direct authority.
• Ability to communicate complex tradeoffs in design documents and technical reviews for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience mentoring engineers at all levels and multiplying impact across teams.
• Proficiency with AI-powered development tools while maintaining strong engineering fundamentals.

Nice to have

• Upstream open-source contributions or maintainer experience in widely used projects.
• Experience with AWS or Azure, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, or GitOps tools such as ArgoCD.
• Production experience building artifact signing, attestation, or provenance systems.
• Experience in open-source, AI-focused, or data science companies, or fast-paced startup environments.
• Constructive technical judgment, long-term risk awareness, and commitment to inclusive collaboration.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote setup with flexible hours and a collaborative environment emphasizing clarity, candor, thoughtful discussion, and employee wellbeing.
• Flexible vacation policy, medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage, paid parental leave, and a monthly wellness stipend.
• Employee assistance and mental health resources, with opportunities for professional growth.
• The application deadline is December 30, 2026; applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis until the role is filled.