Staff Software Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (AI): Designing and building scalable infrastructure systems to power hirify.global's AI platform, focusing on multi-cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes orchestration. Focus on ensuring reliability, scalability, and security while scaling products, regions, customers, and usage.

Location: Must be based in San Francisco, CA, or willing to relocate.

Salary: $201,000 - $264,000 USD

Company

hirify.global is transforming how legal and professional services operate by combining agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise.

What you will do

• Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure systems that power hirify.global's AI platform across multiple cloud regions.
• Own and evolve our multi-cloud infrastructure (Azure, GCP), including Kubernetes orchestration, networking, and container management.
• Lead technical initiatives around observability, incident response, and operational excellence.
• Architect and optimize our distributed systems for reliability, including load balancing, quota management, and failover mechanisms.
• Partner with Product Engineering and Security teams to ensure our infrastructure is an accelerant.
• Drive infrastructure-as-code practices using tools like Terraform and Pulumi to enable reproducible, auditable deployments.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering or Platform Engineering in a production environment.
• Long track record building and scaling complex, large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep proficiency with cloud infrastructure platforms (Azure preferred; GCP or AWS experience transfers well).
• Strong fluency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools — Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes, container orchestration, networking, and cloud security at scale.
• Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Sentry) and incident response practices (PagerDuty, Incident.io).
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or similar languages.

Nice to have

• Experience building infrastructure for AI/ML workloads or high-throughput inference systems.
• Background with distributed rate limiting, load balancing, or quota management systems.
• Experience operating multi-tenant platforms with strict security and compliance requirements.
• Track record of leading complex cross-functional projects and delivering measurable impact.

Culture & Benefits

• Move fast, operate with intensity, and take real ownership of the problems we tackle.
• Stay close to our customers and work together to solve real problems with urgency and care.
• Thrive in ambiguity and push for excellence.