Principal Engineer (Storage, AI)

TL;DR

Principal Engineer (Storage, AI): Designing, building, and operating high-performance AI storage platforms with an accent on scalability, reliability, and throughput. Focus on optimizing existing solutions, developing new storage systems, and collaborating cross-functionally to ensure seamless storage capabilities.

Location: Bellevue, WA (hybrid work environment, remote considered for candidates located more than 30 miles from an office). This position requires access to export controlled information, therefore, candidates must be a U.S. person (citizen, permanent resident, refugee, or asylee) or eligible for the required export authorization.

Salary: $206,000–$303,000

Company

hirify.global is a publicly traded product company providing The Essential Cloud for AI™ for pioneers to build and scale AI with confidence.

What you will do

• Design and implement a highly scalable multi-tenant control plane for hirify.global’s AI storage and cloud infrastructure.
• Contribute to exabyte-scale, S3-compatible object storage and distributed file system development.
• Optimize storage performance and efficiency using technologies like RDMA, GPU Direct Storage, RoCE, InfiniBand, and SPDK.
• Participate in efforts to improve the reliability, durability, and observability of the storage stack.
• Collaborate with operations, platform, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver seamless storage capabilities.
• Mentor other engineers on best practices for building distributed, high-performance systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PHD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8–10+ years of experience working in storage systems engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with object storage, block storage or distributed filesystems in production environments.
• Proficiency in a systems programming language such as Go, C, or Rust.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and scalable system architecture.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in distributed, high-performance environments.
• Must be a U.S. person (citizen, permanent resident, refugee, or asylee) or eligible for required export authorization.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment (remote considered for candidates >30 miles from office).
• Comprehensive benefits including 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Company-paid life insurance, voluntary supplemental life insurance, and disability insurance.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA).
• Tuition Reimbursement and opportunity to participate in an Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
• Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health and Family-Forming support by Carrot.
• Paid Parental Leave and flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside.
• 401(k) with a generous employer match.
• Flexible PTO.
• Catered lunch each day in office/data center locations and a casual work environment.