Technical Lead (Distributed Systems)

TL;DR

Technical Lead (Distributed Systems): Driving the technical vision and execution for KV stores and caching infrastructure with an accent on multi-tenant storage and low-latency. Focus on architecting and scaling high-performance, business-critical systems and mentoring engineers.

Location: US - Remote Eligible. You must live in a state where hirify.global, Inc. has a registered entity. for the up-to-date list of excluded states.

Salary: $204,000—$255,000 USD

Company

hirify.global was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe.

What you will do

• Drive the technical vision and execution for KV stores and caching infrastructure.
• Mentor engineers, shape architectural decisions, and ensure the team delivers high-impact solutions.
• Define the multi-year technical roadmap for caching and KV infrastructure at hirify.global.
• Evolve our KV store from derived-data workloads to support system-of-record use cases, expanding the platform's capabilities and customer base.
• Build a multi-tenant caching solution for hirify.global.
• Oversee frameworks for high-traffic, zero-downtime migrations between critical data platforms.

Requirements

• 9+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Proven track record of leading and mentoring engineering teams, setting technical direction, and growing engineers in their careers.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, multi-tenant storage, and infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence across teams and organizations, building alignment on technical strategy.
• Strong judgment on technical trade-offs and ability to drive decisions that balance short-term delivery with long-term maintainability.
• Experience onboarding to and navigating a broad and complex codebase, and enabling others to do the same.

Culture & Benefits

• This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.