Backend Software Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Backend Software Engineer (AI): Building and operating systems for B2B connectors, enabling reliable, secure, and scalable integration between hirify.global products and enterprise systems with an accent on designing control plane primitives, reliability foundations, and operational tooling. Focus on job orchestration, queueing, storage, caching, backpressure, and ensuring enterprise-grade connectivity with high bars for privacy, compliance, and uptime.

Location: San Francisco and New York City

Salary: $230,000–$385,000

Company

hirify.global is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

What you will do

• Design and operate the infrastructure that powers connector sync, indexing, and retrieval at scale.
• Build control plane primitives for connectors, including rollout controls, configuration management, and permissions.
• Own reliability and operational excellence, including SLOs, monitoring/alerting, and incident response.
• Create guardrails for safe multi-tenant execution, such as isolation boundaries and rate limits.
• Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure enterprise requirements are met.
• Improve developer velocity via internal tooling, local dev workflows, and observability dashboards.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional engineering experience in infra / SRE / platform roles at tech and product-driven companies.
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals and production instincts regarding availability, latency, correctness, and resilience.
• Experience building and operating services with meaningful uptime and scale requirements.
• Proficient in one or more backend languages (e.g., Python, Rust) and comfortable working close to systems concerns.
• Deep familiarity with observability (metrics, logs, tracing), incident management, and reliability engineering practices.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguous problem spaces and pushing pragmatic solutions into production.

Nice to have

• Experience with multi-region systems.
• Interest in AI/ML.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission to make AGI beneficial for all of humanity.
• Committed to safely deploying AI systems to the world through products.
• Values diverse perspectives, voices, and experiences.
• Equal opportunity employer, committed to non-discrimination.
• Committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
• Offers equity compensation in addition to salary.