Senior Staff Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Staff Engineer (DevOps): Responsible for helping shape the future of the developer ecosystem and ensuring the use of the rapidly-evolving engineering landscape. Focus on enhancing smart data collection and integrating analytics assistants that produce actionable insights every step of the way.

Location: Must be based in the U.S.

Salary: $185,000—$363,000 USD

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

• Drive strong operational excellence standards for internal software development tools and services.
• Design software development systems to ensure best practices and champion industry standards.
• Advise Engineering partners on technical implications of systems design with regards to complexity, testability, and maintainability.
• Lead development and project management of some of the largest projects within hirify.global to improve developer productivity and software quality.
• Provide technical mentorship and leadership to the Developer Productivity organization, promoting best practices and fostering team growth.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of experience in the developer productivity domain in large engineering environments.
• Strong experience supporting one or more of C++, Java, Go, Python, Rust, Node, Typescript.
• Strong understanding of DevOps culture and tooling.
• Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines, common deployment models and infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience implementing metrics and observability tools and best practices, as well as data processing pipeline technologies such as Iceberg, Trino, Kafka.
• Proven track record of driving technical execution and vision for organizations with 50+ team members.

Nice to have

• Strong systems fundamentals, including testing and monitoring multi-threaded systems.
• Performance profiling of complex systems.
• Leveraging best of breed AI tools & technologies in the developer productivity domain along with the necessary telemetry and analytics to measure effectiveness in a rapidly changing environment.
• Experience supporting the development of database internals or core components for data processing systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Strong culture of inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration.
• Flexible paid time off.
• 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave.
• Fertility and adoption assistance.
• 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings.