Staff Engineer (Distributed Systems)

TL;DR

Staff Engineer (Distributed Systems): Architecting new solutions and spearheading improvements for hirify.global's Cluster to Cluster Synchronization team, focusing on building scalable, performant, and low-downtime migration services like Atlas Live Migration and mongosync. Focus on designing, architecting, and delivering key migration features, improving codebase, and ensuring high observability and operational excellence for enterprise workloads.

Location: Remote in Ireland or onsite in Dublin

Company

hirify.global is a product company redefining the database for the AI era, empowering customers to innovate with its unified, globally distributed, multi-cloud database platform, hirify.global Atlas.

What you will do

• Spearhead key improvements to migration services regarding performance, reliability, observability, and data verification.
• Define the future evolution and vision for hirify.global migrations in collaboration with product and engineering teams.
• Design, architect, build, and deliver critical migration features for customers.
• Improve codebase, best practices, and design principles.
• Coach and mentor engineers of varying experience levels.

Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, primarily focused on writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Java, C#, Go).
• Strong systems fundamentals, including multi-threaded programming.
• Familiarity with distributed systems concepts such as consensus protocols, data replication, distributed transactions, and fault tolerance.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider technology (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Has led the launch of new features and maintained them in production with a high level of observability and operational excellence.
• Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership for teams and/or projects.
• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Supportive and enriching culture focused on personal growth and business impact.
• Employee affinity groups, fertility assistance, and a generous parental leave policy.
• Committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities.
• An equal opportunities employer.