Senior Software Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer: Designing, building, and evolving the C++ stream processing engine that powers Atlas Stream Processing with an accent on core execution engine and stream processing stages. Focus on database internals, query execution, storage engines, autotuning, and workload optimization.

Location: Must be in the New York City area for our hybrid working model.

Salary: $126,000 — $248,000 USD

Company

hirify.global is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market.

What you will do

• Design, build, and deliver core components of the system in collaboration with other stakeholders.
• Help shape architecture, development practices, and escalation policies as the teams and the product grow.
• Mentor fellow engineers and assume ownership and accountability of projects.

Requirements

• Strong background in database internals or building core components for data processing systems (including query execution, storage engines, autotuning, and workload optimization).
• 5+ years of experience in building database services, distributed systems, and/or foundational cloud services at scale.
• Proven success in designing, writing, testing, debugging, performance tuning, possessing a strong grip on the foundational material of computer science, and maintaining distributed and/or highly concurrent software systems in large, long-lived code bases.
• Good verbal and written technical communication skills, desire to collaborate with colleagues, mentor fellow engineers, and assume project ownership and accountability.
• Track record of identifying problems, implementing solutions, and delivering complex projects in distributed systems or databases.
• Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and pride.

Nice to have

• Hands‑on modern C++ experience in performance‑sensitive systems.
• Background with stream processing or query engines. Exposure to systems such as Flink, Spark, Beam, Kafka Streams, or database query engines.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible paid time off.
• 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave.
• Fertility and adoption assistance.
• 401(k) plan.
• Mental health counseling.
• Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings.