Director Of Engineering, Product Platforms

TL;DR

Director of Engineering, Product Platforms: Leading high-caliber engineering teams to build and scale a robust, cloud-native platform that serves as the foundation for data-driven innovation from hirify.global with an accent on complex distributed systems and strategic product delivery. Focus on redefining what’s possible in the world of high-performance data and leaving a lasting legacy on the backbone of the modern digital economy.

Location: Bay Area–based team members are expected to work from the office 2–3 times per week—typically Tuesday through Thursday.

Salary: [$225,000 - $300,000] (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law)

Company

hirify.global is the real-time database for mission-critical use cases and workloads, including machine learning, generative, and agentic AI.

What you will do

• Lead leaders, guide multiple platform teams through the development of hirify.global Cloud into a product platform for all hirify.global products
• Build platforms that empower other product engineering teams to own their cloud products, from control and data planes, billing, licensing, telemetry, and UIs
• Communicate regularly with stakeholders, product managers, product engineering leaders, SREs teams, and other developers regarding progress on a long-term technology roadmap
• Convert business requirements into actionable engineering plans and work items
• Steward the quality and reliability of both your teams’ services and other teams’ services running on the platform
• Attract, develop and retain top-tier engineering talent into hirify.global and create avenues for them to succeed through technology, mentorship, and processes

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in developing distributed, multitenant, auto-scalable backend services
• 5+ years of experience in technical leadership in management roles, leading high-performing engineering teams through direct leadership and through manager direct reports
• Demonstrated ability to provide strong technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to teams of backend and front end engineers
• Proven track record of ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and reliable solutions in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience in recruiting, onboarding, and developing top talent within more than 1 kind of engineering team. Ability to foster a collaborative, inclusive team culture that values innovation, continuous learning, and excellence
• Proficient knowledge of one or more statically typed back-end programming languages (Go, Kotlin, Java, Scala)

Nice to have

• Experience with usage-based billing, entitlements, or licensing enforcement.
• Familiarity with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog).
• Experience with workflow orchestration (e.g., Temporal).
• Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform, similar).
• Experience building or operating NoSQL and high-performance data systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Be part of a dynamic team that is shaping the future of data management.