Senior Software Engineer (Distributed Systems)

TL;DR

Software Engineer (KV Stores & Caching): Building and scaling critical infrastructure for hirify.global's online serving storage systems with an accent on distributed systems. Focus on implementing features to evolve the KV store and improving caching solutions.

Location: US - Remote Eligible, but you must live in a state where hirify.global, Inc. has a registered entity.

Salary: $157,000—$185,000 USD

Company

hirify.global was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe.

What you will do

• Contribute to building and scaling critical infrastructure powering hirify.global's online serving storage systems.
• Implement features to evolve our KV store from derived-data workloads to support system-of-record use cases.
• Improve caching solutions used across hirify.global.
• Implement observability features that help teams debug latency issues across the caching stack.
• Develop tooling to safely perform rolling upgrades across hundreds of cache clusters.
• Profile and optimizing hot paths in our KV client libraries to reduce P99 latency.

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.
• Ability to write clean, readable, testable, and maintainable code.
• Experience onboarding to and contributing to a complex codebase.
• Enthusiasm for learning and growing your skills in infrastructure engineering.

Nice to have

• Exposure to distributed caching systems, KV stores, or similar infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
• Committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible.
• Provide a disability inclusive application and interview process.