Principal Engineer (Backend)

TL;DR

Principal Engineer (Backend): Lead the architectural design and evolution of MuleSoft's mission-critical Runtime Manager, a microservices-based ecosystem. Focus on ensuring scalability, reliability, and security of multi-tenant, multi-region cloud infrastructure and establishing architectural standards for event-driven systems and distributed workflows.

Location: Bellevue, WA or San Francisco, CA. In office expectations are 36 days/quarter.

Company

hirify.global is a company which provides SaaS solutions.

What you will do

• Define technical strategy and architecture for 40+ microservices handling millions of requests daily.
• Drive design decisions for deployment orchestration, service discovery, and capacity management systems.
• Ensure the scalability, reliability, and security of multi-tenant, multi-region cloud infrastructure.
• Lead cross-functional teams in modernizing and evolving the platform on Kubernetes.
• Establish architectural standards for event-driven systems and distributed workflows.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in microservices architecture and distributed systems design.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java/Spring Boot in production environments.
• Proven track record with Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
• Event-driven architecture expertise (Kafka, messaging systems).
• Production operations mindset with a focus on reliability and observability.
• Experience designing for scale, multi-tenancy, and high availability.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm).

Nice to have

• Distributed orchestration expertise (Temporal, workflow engines, or equivalent).
• Multi-region deployment architectures and automated region build.
• Familiarity with integration platforms or the MuleSoft ecosystem.
• Security and compliance experience in SaaS environments.