Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Productivity (AI)

TL;DR

Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Productivity (AI): Building and optimizing the end-to-end developer experience for engineers and researchers, focusing on scalable, reliable distributed infrastructure, build systems, and CI/CD pipelines. Focus on defining technical strategy, evolving language ecosystems, and deeply integrating AI into engineering workflows at scale.

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle, US. Visa sponsorship is available.

Salary: $405,000–$485,000 USD (Annual)

Company

hirify.global is a public benefit corporation committed to creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

What you will do

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for your area.
• Define infrastructure architecture, ensuring complex problems are solved.
• Design and build scalable, reliable distributed infrastructure and shared libraries.
• Evolve build environments, package management, and dependency systems for fast, reproducible builds.
• Define and implement language ecosystem standards, tooling, and frameworks.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in a Software Engineer role, building and operating large-scale developer infrastructure.
• 3+ years of experience leading large-scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead.
• Deep experience with build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and/or developer tooling in a large monorepo environment.
• Strong proficiency in Python, Rust and/or Go.
• Obsessed with developer productivity and reducing friction in the software development lifecycle.
• Experience with container orchestration and infrastructure at scale.

Nice to have

• Experience with CI orchestration tools (Buildkite, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar).
• Experience building or operating remote build execution systems (Bazel Remote Execution API, BuildBarn, BuildBuddy, or similar).
• Experience with Nix/NixOS/Docker and managing large image / package sets at scale.
• Experience building CLI tools, developer-facing services, and GitHub API and automation workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Work as a single cohesive team on a few large-scale AI research efforts.
• Value impact, advancing long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI.
• Extremely collaborative group with frequent research discussions.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Optional equity donation matching.
• Generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours.
• Lovely office space for collaboration.