Staff Software Engineer (Cybersecurity)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (Cybersecurity): Leading the design of components for real-time detection and response to security threats in hosts, Kubernetes, and Cloud assets with an accent on reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency. Focus on providing technical leadership, mentorship to other engineers, and contributing to the technical strategy of the product.

Location: Flexible - Spain / Flexible - Italy / Flexible - Serbia

Company

hirify.global helps organizations secure innovation in the cloud, the right way.

What you will do

• Lead the design of main components related to real-time detection and response to security threats in hosts, Kubernetes, and Cloud assets.
• Build distributed and scalable services in Go to process, store and analyze customer's asset metadata and runtime insights.
• Contribute to the team's scale-out effort by evolving architecture for reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency.
• Collaborate with Product, Threat Research, Frontend/UX, and customer-facing teams to create features with measurable impact.
• Build microservices in Go to expose API to both internal and external use cases.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers on the team.

Requirements

• Computer science fundamentals in design, data structures, and algorithms.
• Clean coding and automation practices.
• 8+ years in a software engineer role, with experience in a technical leadership capacity.
• Experience with cloud-native infrastructure and containerized workloads (Linux, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Operational mindset: log/metrics/tracing practices for observability and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Experience with technologies such as Postgres, Elastic, Redis and queueing systems like JetStream/Kafka.

Nice to have

• Analytical approach to take technical decisions in a traffic intensive and distributed architecture.
• Experience guiding technical direction and supporting the development of junior engineers.

Culture & Benefits

• Extra days off to prioritize your well-being.
• Mental health support for you and your family through the Modern Health app.
• Great compensation package.
• hirify.global values a diverse workplace and encourages women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.