Senior Production Engineer, Tooling & Frameworks (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Production Engineer (AI): Defining and building systems that power a scalable agentic ecosystem, serving as hirify.global’s intelligent SRE assistant with an accent on AI reasoning, data infrastructure, and observability. Focus on designing distributed services and data pipelines that process and retrieve operational knowledge at scale.

Location: Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA. While we prioritize a hybrid work environment, remote work may be considered for candidates located more than 30 miles from an office, based on role requirements for specialized skill sets.

Salary: $139,000 to $204,000

Company

hirify.global delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence.

What you will do

• Architect and build large-scale distributed systems that power AI SRE Platforms.
• Design data infrastructure for AI reasoning optimized for real-time operational queries.
• Build agent orchestration and lifecycle components so agents can communicate, delegate, and reason collectively across hirify.global systems.
• Integrate AI SRE Platform with internal systems to enable end-to-end automation and insights.
• Lead architectural design discussions and set technical direction for AI-driven reliability systems.
• Develop services that interpret telemetry, detect anomalies, and generate RCA and PIR artifacts; trigger automated mitigations where appropriate.

Requirements

• 5+ years in software or infrastructure engineering building and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Proficiency in Python (or similar), with experience delivering production microservices and data pipelines.
• Expertise in Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong understanding of data systems (streaming, indexing, caching, ETL).
• Demonstrated experience designing for scalability, fault tolerance, and performance.
• Applicant must either be a U.S. person or eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization.

Nice to have

• Experience building RAG systems or embedding-based search.
• Familiarity with vector databases and text/signal retrieval systems.
• Experience developing or deploying agentic AI systems (LLM-based automation, AI observability).
• Strong distributed-systems background (consensus, message buses, job orchestration, eventual consistency).
• Experience designing data schemas and APIs for knowledge representation and operational reasoning.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by hirify.global.
• 401(k) with a generous employer match.
• Flexible PTO.
• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations.
• A casual work environment.