Software Engineer, Reliability

TL;DR

Software Engineer, Reliability: Identify reliability challenges impacting engineering teams and platforms, developing innovative solutions. Focus on designing, building, and maintaining core observability libraries and tools used by all engineering teams.

Location: Denver, Colorado, United States; San Francisco, California, United States. Individuals are expected to work from the office 3 days a week.

Salary: $150,000 - $176,000 USD (San Francisco, CA); $127,000 - $149,000 USD (Denver, CO)

Company

hirify.global is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions.

What you will do

• Design, build, ship, and maintain the core observability libraries, tools, and patterns used by all of hirify.global’s engineering teams.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across the stack, with respect to performance, availability, and data quality.
• Participate in a cross-organization incident response team, driving continuous improvement.
• Contribute to architectural discussions within the SRE team and with cross-functional teams.
• Influence cross-team projects and the reliability roadmap to enable engineering and help hirify.global customers.
• Provide consultation and feedback across teams to ensure we are building highly reliable, efficient, and scalable systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of software engineering experience, including 1+ years focused on reliability, scalability, and efficiency of distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Python (preferred), Go, or Ruby within Linux environments, and strong understanding of microservices, asynchronous systems, and remote APIs.
• Experience developing and operating production, customer-facing systems in AWS or Azure using Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform.
• Skilled in observability and incident response practices using tools such as Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Strong collaboration, documentation, and communication skills, with experience leading small projects, promoting platform adoption, and fostering a self-service, product-first mindset.

Culture & Benefits

• A fast-paced and collaborative environment.
• Learning and development allowance.
• Competitive cash and equity compensation, and opportunity for advancement.
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services.
• Flexible PTO policy.
• Monthly wellness stipend.