Staff Software Engineer (SaaS)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (SaaS): Shaping the future of hirify.global's Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) Logs offering by unifying observability pipelines and on-prem log management into a seamless customer experience with an accent on building and scaling systems that process, route, and store high-volume observability data within customer-managed infrastructure. Focus on influencing product strategy, mentoring engineers, and solving deeply technical challenges at scale.

Location: New York, New York, USA. Hybrid workplace.

Salary: $234,000 — $300,000 USD

Company

hirify.global is a global SaaS business delivering growth and profitability by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring.

What you will do

• Drive the architecture and technical direction for unifying observability pipelines and on-prem observability storage into a cohesive BYOC Logs experience.
• Build and scale high-throughput systems for log processing, routing, and transformation across distributed environments.
• Lead cross-team initiatives, aligning engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver complex, multi-team projects.
• Design and implement software that runs reliably within customer-managed infrastructure, including on-prem and cloud environments.
• Improve system performance, scalability, and cost efficiency through thoughtful trade-off analysis and capacity planning.
• Contribute hands-on to critical code paths, debugging, and deployment challenges in customer environments.

Requirements

• Experience building and operating software deployed in customer-managed or on-prem environments, not just SaaS platforms.
• Strong expertise in distributed systems, including scalability, performance optimization, and high-throughput data processing.
• Proficient in systems-level programming (e.g., Go, Rust, or C++) and understand how software runs across diverse environments (e.g., Linux systems).
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP) and are comfortable troubleshooting infrastructure and networking issues.
• Experienced with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes in production environments.
• Have a track record of leading large, cross-functional engineering efforts and influencing technical direction across teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Generous and competitive benefits package.
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan.
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities.
• Employee-focused best in class onboarding.
• Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program.
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture.