Staff Engineer (Database)

TL;DR

Staff Engineer (Database): Design, build, and operate the internal and external Observability stack for the hirify.global platform, with an accent on security, durability, availability, and performance. Focus on architecting and implementing components that drive performance, scalability, cost-efficiency, and resiliency.

Location: Must be based in Dublin for our hybrid working model.

Company

hirify.global is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market.

What you will do

• Help build and architect systems for the mission-critical observability platform, leading the architecture and implementation of components that drive performance, scalability, cost-efficiency, and resiliency.
• Design and implement observability improvements that enable hirify.global engineers and customers to quickly and accurately diagnose the root cause of production issues.
• Write production-ready database code, improve the existing code, and mentor their team to write higher quality code.
• Diagnose test failures, identify bugs in existing code, fix them, and prevent bugs from being introduced in new code.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and engineering teams across the company to jointly work on large initiatives.
• Advise Product Management on technical product direction, engineering complexity and inter-project dependencies.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of experience in designing, programming, debugging, and tuning distributed and/or highly concurrent C/C++/Java/Rust mission critical software systems.
• Experience running latency sensitive, high throughput systems.
• Strong systems fundamentals, including multi-threaded programming, performance profiling, and expert-level programming.
• Familiarity with database internals or building core components for data processing systems.
• Familiarity with observability ecosystem and best practices.
• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills and a strong desire to collaborate with colleagues and mentor engineers.

Nice to have

• Indexing or database performance tuning experience

Culture & Benefits

• Strong culture of inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration.
• Committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone.
• Employee affinity groups, fertility assistance, and a generous parental leave policy.