Staff Product Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Staff Product Engineer (AI): Building and scaling shared product systems and primitives that power hirify.global’s core experiences with an accent on agentic software development and platform reliability. Focus on leading cross-team platform initiatives, designing solutions for scale, and raising engineering excellence for millions of users.

Location: Foster City, CA (Hybrid), with an in-office requirement of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Salary: $225,000–$320,000

Company

hirify.global is an agentic software creation platform enabling users to build applications using natural language.

What you will do

• Lead major cross-team platform initiatives from 0 → 1 to huge scale.
• Build shared, extensible Agent primitives for safe and consistent reuse.
• Identify and solve high-leverage technical bottlenecks (performance, reliability, correctness, abuse, observability).
• Raise engineering excellence through architecture reviews, code quality, and mentorship.
• Partner across teams to improve platform adoption, ergonomics, and velocity.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Understanding of the full agentic software development stack for coding agents.
• Strong track record leading complex projects with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience building, operating, and scaling platform systems in production.
• Strong product judgment, balancing UX, speed, correctness, and maintainability.
• Comfort working in modern web stacks such as TypeScript, React, Node.js, Postgres.

Nice to have

• Experience in high engineering bar or fast-growing startup environments.
• Experience with platform and distributed systems patterns (queues, workflows, caching, rate limiting, async processing).
• Familiarity with systems like Redis, Temporal, SSO/SCIM, Cloudflare, GCP, Datadog, Sentry, Statsig, Segment.
• Excitement for the future of programming, agent workflows, and developer tools.
• Exposure to agent ecosystems (MCP-style patterns, tool integrations).

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Equity, 401(k) Program.
• Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance.
• Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave, Short Term and Long Term Disability.
• Commuter Benefits, Monthly Wellness Stipend.
• Autonomous Work Environment, In Office Set-Up Reimbursement.
• Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays.
• Quarterly Team Gatherings, In Office Amenities.