Principal Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

TL;DR

Principal Software Engineer (Infrastructure): Shaping the technical vision and multi-year roadmap for hirify.global's Infrastructure, ensuring systems remain reliable, efficient, and ready for the next 200M users with an accent on balancing reliability, cost-efficiency, and scalability. Focus on mentoring senior engineers and representing hirify.global's engineering culture externally.

Location: Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area. For this role, the hiring manager would like folks to be in the office 1 day a week. Relocation assistance may be available.

Salary: $400,000 to $450,000

Company

hirify.global is a multiplatform platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests.

What you will do

• Lead hirify.global's most critical infrastructure initiatives.
• Define and drive the technical vision and multi-year roadmap for Infrastructure, aligning teams around shared architectural principles.
• Partner with leadership across the company to ensure infrastructure capabilities enable product innovation.
• Design systems that balance reliability, cost-efficiency, and scalability.
• Mentor and grow senior engineers across multiple teams, raising the technical bar organization-wide.
• Represent hirify.global's engineering culture externally through blog posts, conference talks, and open source contributions.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience architecting complex infrastructure serving hundreds of millions of users with strict uptime requirements.
• Deep expertise in backend systems, databases, and the operational realities of running systems at scale.
• Ability to navigate significant ambiguity and make sound technical decisions that hold up over time.
• Experience influencing technical direction across many teams without direct authority.
• Strong communication skills and you can articulate complex technical concepts to any audience and build alignment around your vision.

Nice to have

• Experience with Rust, Elixir, or Python in production systems.
• Expertise with distributed databases like ScyllaDB, Cassandra, or similar.
• Expertise building large scale chat products.
• History of open source contributions.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform.
• Deepen your friendships around games and shared interests.
• Committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process.