Platform Engineer (Data)

TL;DR

Platform Engineer (Data): Designing, building, and maintaining core distributed platform services with an accent on scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency. Focus on implementing distributed systems, optimizing data-intensive workflows, and improving system observability for massive scale.

Location: Fully Remote (Global)

Company

hirify.global is a Postgres development platform providing a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search, built by developers for developers.

What you will do

• Design and implement distributed services and APIs that power the hirify.global Platform.
• Lead projects to improve scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency across existing systems.
• Build data-intensive workflows, background jobs, and event-driven pipelines.
• Own service SLIs/SLOs and contribute to incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Improve system observability with metrics, logging, tracing, and profiling, and contribute to CI/CD and release processes.
• Partner with product teams to deliver features end-to-end, from design docs to production.

Requirements

• Experienced in designing and operating distributed systems, with strong foundations in consistency, fault tolerance, partitioning, consensus, and back pressure.
• Proficient in TypeScript and/or Go, with 5+ years building production services in one or both languages.
• Comfortable with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and container orchestration.
• Familiar with multi-tenant architectures, API design, and data modelling.
• Knowledgeable about networking fundamentals and security best practices.
• Experienced with Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi preferred; Terraform/CDK also fine).
• Comfortable participating in on-call rotations for large-scale production systems.

Nice to have

• Experience with Postgres internals, logical replication, or CDC pipelines.
• Experience with service meshes, workload identity, or zero-trust networking.
• Background in performance engineering and capacity planning.
• Open source contributions in systems, databases, or runtime tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully Remote and globally distributed team across 40+ countries.
• Provides a WeWork membership or co-working allowance anywhere in the world.
• Offers ESOP (equity ownership) to all team members.
• Tech allowance to set up an ideal work environment (laptop, monitor, headphones, etc.).
• Covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents globally.
• Annual company off-sites for connection, collaboration, and fun.
• Flexible, asynchronous work environment where you manage your own time.
• Annual education allowance for professional development (courses, books, conferences).

Hiring process

• Application review by the team.
• Short video chat Intro Call.
• Up to four interviews with Founders, future teammates, and a cross-functional member.
• Decision, potentially with a final question or direct offer.