Staff Software Engineer (Data In Flight)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (Data In Flight): Building and evolving core data ingestion and routing pipelines for a multi-tenant customer engagement platform with an accent on reliability, performance, and cost. Focus on designing Elasticsearch strategies, enforcing platform contracts, and leading cross-team projects for scalable distributed systems.

Location: Remote (US) or onsite in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York, or San Francisco. Individual pay is determined by specific US work location.

Salary: $156,000–$242,000

Company

hirify.global is a leading AI-powered customer engagement platform that helps brands create dynamic, individualized experiences at scale.

What you will do

• Own and evolve core Data In Flight services (ingestion, user and event APIs, identity, system events) with a focus on reliability, performance, and cost.
• Lead the Elasticsearch strategy for multi-tenant live user and event data, including index and mapping design, shard strategy, and safeguards.
• Design and enforce platform contracts (APIs, data models, SLAs, and usage limits) to enable product teams while maintaining data platform safety and scalability.
• Work across other data and application teams on initiatives such as Elasticsearch upgrades, guardrails, resharding, and event retention.
• Provide senior technical leadership during incidents and reviews, turning operational learnings into durable platform improvements.
• Mentor engineers on distributed systems, data modeling, and pragmatic use of Elasticsearch.

Requirements

• Hands-on Elasticsearch expertise in production, including supporting customer-facing features, designing schemas and queries for high-cardinality workloads, and operating large clusters.
• Multi-tenant platform experience: building shared data services, implementing rate limits, quotas, and noisy-neighbor protections, and thinking in terms of contracts and SLOs.
• Strong distributed systems background with JVM-based services (Scala/Java), event-driven or streaming architectures, and modern cloud infrastructure (AWS or similar), messaging, and caches.
• Staff-level impact and collaboration: leading cross-team projects from design through rollout.
• Clear written communication, including RFCs, design docs, and post-incident reviews.

Nice to have

• Experience with Scala and the Play framework or similar JVM stacks.
• Prior work on core user data platforms (identity, profile stores, event pipelines, or CDP-like systems).
• Exposure to FinOps / infra cost optimization in data-heavy systems.
• Experience in MarTech / AdTech or other high-volume, low-latency data domains.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salaries, meaningful equity, & 401(k) plan.
• Medical, dental, vision, & life insurance, Fertility & Adoption Assistance.
• Balance Days (additional paid holidays), Flexible PTO, Paid Sabbatical.
• Monthly Employee Wellness allowance and Monthly Professional Development allowance.
• Pre-tax commuter benefits and complete laptop workstation.
• Commitment to building a diverse and inclusive workplace with remote employees worldwide.