Senior Software Engineer (Streaming/Data-Intensive Systems)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Streaming/Data-Intensive Systems): Designing and optimizing high-volume backend services for a distributed data platform with an accent on performance, scalability, and system behavior under load. Focus on redesigning data pipelines, investigating system bottlenecks, and leading large-scale projects with cutting-edge technologies.

Location: Hybrid (Cairo)

Company

hirify.global is a global leader in experience analytics, providing an all-in-one platform for understanding digital journeys.

What you will do

• Design efficient, data-intensive backend services to collect, process, and store petabytes of data, focusing on performance and scalability.
• Redesign and unify inherited data pipelines, driving the transition to a streamlined data architecture.
• Investigate, debug, and optimize system behavior across CPU, memory, I/O, and concurrency as data volumes grow.
• Lead large-scale projects involving complex systems and cutting-edge technologies.
• Develop innovative data formats and exchange mechanisms to optimize functionality and minimize costs.
• Share knowledge and increase team expertise by introducing new ideas and mentoring fellow engineers.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience with strong fundamentals in computer science and software engineering (data structures, concurrency, memory management, and performance).
• Experience with dynamic complex systems in a rich ecosystem with many integrations.
• Hands-on experience tackling large-scale, high-volume systems, understanding trade-offs for reliable scaling.
• Care for production quality, including testing, monitoring, logging, and observability.
• Experience with cloud providers such as AWS and Azure, with comfort in writing infrastructure as code.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment on-site and asynchronously with people around the world.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in Go and/or Scala.
• Experience with ClickHouse and/or SingleStore.
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience using Kafka.

Culture & Benefits

• Virtual onboarding, Hackathon, and opportunities to interact with global colleagues.
• Work flexibility with hybrid and remote work policies.
• Generous paid time-off policy.
• Immediate eligibility for birthing and non-birthing parental leave.
• Wellbeing and Home Office allowances.
• Culture Crew in every country to coordinate regular activities for employees.
• Stock options for every full-time employee.
• Multiple Employee Resource Groups.