Software Engineering SMTS (API)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineering SMTS (API): Designing and implementing next-generation API platforms for observability services with an accent on distributed systems, scalability, and system reliability. Focus on challenging product assumptions, reducing engineering toil through automation, and ensuring impactful solutions.

Location: Onsite in San Francisco or Palo Alto, California, USA

Company

hirify.global is a leading cloud-based software company providing various business applications and services.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and deploy features to enhance observability services.
• Demonstrate effective service ownership by monitoring services and taking proactive actions during incidents.
• Interact with customers to understand requirements and address issues.
• Work with engineering and product leadership to evolve the feature roadmap and contribute to release planning.
• Champion efforts to reduce engineering toil by automating manual procedures and moving code to config.
• Present your work at tech talks, cloud demos, and engineering blogs to showcase and iterate using feedback.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• A related technical degree required.
• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating highly scalable, reliable distributed systems.
• Expert-level understanding of software engineering best practices, including code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, and monitoring.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a history of partnering effectively with product management.
• Proven, hands-on experience with high-scale API platforms and capabilities (API gateway, rate limiting, authentication, versioning).

Nice to have

• Experience with container orchestration systems (Kubernetes, Docker, Helios, Fleet).
• Expertise in platforms/technologies like AWS, Elastic Search, Logstash, Kafka, MongoDB, Hadoop, Spark, Trino/Presto, Airflow, Splunk.
• Experience with observability platforms/products.

Culture & Benefits

• Join the Monitoring Cloud team, building critical observability platforms for hirify.global services.
• Focus on maintaining high availability and system reliability, with success defined by MTTD and MTTR.
• Embrace a "customer-first" philosophy, serving as a strategic partner to product teams.
• Opportunities to challenge assumptions and ensure the most impactful solutions are built.
• Present your work at tech talks, cloud demos, and engineering blogs.