Principal Software Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Principal Software Engineer (Web): Designing and improving the architecture and codebase of a large-scale web crawler platform system. Focus on ensuring scalability, efficiency, performance, and quality while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Location: Beijing, China. Starting January 26, 2026, hirify.global (MAI) employees who live within a 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week.

Company

hirify.global (MAI) builds comprehensive and engaging content, services, and platforms for consumers to access information and for enterprises to enhance employee and customer experiences.

What you will do

• Design the architecture of the Crawler system, ensuring scalability, efficiency, performance, and quality.
• Implement features in a distributed and scalable environment using data to guide and measure success.
• Develop and execute unit, integration, and performance tests.
• Debug and mitigate incidents in live production environments.
• Stay up to date with the latest industry trends and technologies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align development goals with business objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent).
• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proficiency in at least one high-level programming language including C++, C#, Java, Golang or Rust.
• Good communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• Fluent English speaking and writing.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.

Nice to have

• Experience with large-scale distributed systems.
• Familiarity with online service high performance tuning.
• Familiarity with large-scale data processing and storage.
• Crawling system experience.
• Search engine platform development experience.
• Machine learning project experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment.
• Employees are expected to work from the office at least four days per week if they live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location.