Senior Principal Engineer, Telemetry & Licensing Systems (Distributed Systems)

TL;DR

Senior Principal Engineer (Distributed Systems): Leading the architectural vision for hirify.global's core telemetry and licensing systems, focusing on global scale, reliability, and security for hybrid SaaS and self-managed deployments. Focus on breaking down ambiguous challenges into actionable designs, defining long-term architecture for entitlement services, and driving observability-first practices.

Location: Remote, USA

Salary: $240,000–$312,000 (for California Based Applicants)

Company

hirify.global is a real-time database for mission-critical use cases, including machine learning and AI, powering millions of transactions per second with millisecond latency.

What you will do

• Lead the design and architecture of hirify.global’s telemetry and licensing systems, ensuring global scale, reliability, and security.
• Break down complex, ambiguous technical challenges into actionable strategies aligning system design with company growth goals.
• Define long-term architecture for entitlement services, usage metering, high-watermark billing, and event models.
• Partner with Product, RevOps, and Finance to integrate telemetry and licensing into monetization and adoption workflows.
• Mentor and guide engineers across teams, building alignment on system design and execution.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation, providing senior-level technical leadership during critical incidents.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with expertise in high-scale, high-performance service-oriented systems.
• Proven success designing and delivering large-scale telemetry, ingestion, or licensing platforms in production.
• Strong experience across cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, containers, microservices).
• Hands-on depth in languages such as Java, Python, Go, or similar.
• Track record of modernizing complex systems and driving initiatives spanning dozens of engineers and global teams.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, able to clarify complexity and influence at all levels.

Nice to have

• Experience with observability and incident response tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty).
• Industry recognition through open-source contributions, publications, or external talks.

Culture & Benefits

• Be part of a dynamic team shaping the future of data management.
• Work on a database built for infinite scale, speed, and sustainability, unleashing the power of real-time data.
• Committed to providing an environment free from discrimination as an Equal Opportunity Employer.