Software Engineering Principal Architect (Cloud)

TL;DR

Software Engineering Principal Architect (Cloud, Distributed Systems): Leading the design and evolution of scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant transactional and distributed systems for enterprise cloud computing with an accent on architectural leadership for transactional storage and compute layers. Focus on driving automation, ensuring operational excellence, and meeting strict Trust SLAs.

Location: Onsite in San Francisco, California

Company

hirify.global is building the next generation of trusted enterprise computing in the cloud, specializing in transactional systems, distributed systems, and enterprise-grade reliability, availability, and scale.

What you will do

• Lead the design and evolution of highly scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant transactional and distributed system architectures.
• Provide architectural leadership for transactional storage and compute, including metadata, logs, and database compute layers.
• Drive automation and operational excellence through control-plane-driven architectures.
• Ensure systems meet strict Trust SLAs for availability, reliability, scalability, and self-healing.
• Collaborate across engineering, operations, and product teams to align architecture with business and platform goals.
• Mentor senior engineers and contribute hands-on with design/code reviews and critical implementations.

Requirements

• 15+ years of professional experience (or Master’s with 12+ years) in designing and building scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant transactional and distributed systems in enterprise production environments.
• Expert-level Java development experience in Unix/Linux environments.
• Deep understanding of object-oriented programming, modern design patterns, and system architecture principles.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence across teams and levels.
• Experience using telemetry, metrics, and observability to drive operational excellence.
• High engineering rigor, including writing functional and unit tests and participating in peer code reviews.

Nice to have

• Experience with relational databases.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a fast-paced, metrics-driven, and deeply collaborative team environment.
• Opportunity to influence both technical direction and engineering culture.
• Commitment to continuous improvement in Agile development environments.
• Openness to learning and feedback.