Senior Software Engineer (Cybersecurity)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Cybersecurity): Leading the technical design and implementation of core security data pipelines with an accent on capturing, processing, and delivering security signals at scale. Focus on building robust, developer-friendly interfaces and defining the technical roadmap for the platform.

Location: Seattle

Salary: $190,400 - $285,600

Company

hirify.global is expanding its focus to provide a comprehensive security telemetry platform that helps businesses protect their entire digital ecosystem on hirify.global.

What you will do

• Architect a highly available, low-latency pipeline for processing millions of events per second into structured security telemetry.
• Develop core services and streaming APIs for enterprise customers to ingest security signals into their security operations centers and analytics tools.
• Partner with security researchers to build logic that identifies anomalous behavior and surfaces high-fidelity security insights.
• Lead the technical roadmap for the platform, making decisions on data modeling, storage strategies, and abstraction layers.
• Set the bar for code quality, system resilience, and operational maturity, ensuring 99.99%+ availability.
• Collaborate with hirify.global’s core platform and data teams to leverage global infrastructure while ensuring security data remains isolated and protected.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, shipping and maintaining complex, large-scale systems.
• Expertise in building and operating high-throughput data pipelines (e.g., Kafka, Flink, Spark).
• Strong programming fundamentals in languages like Java, C++, or Rust.
• Proven track record of designing robust, scalable architectures and leading cross-team technical initiatives.
• Experience maintaining mission-critical services with high availability requirements and a strong focus on observability and debugging.
• Excellent technical writing skills and the ability to mentor other engineers while collaborating with non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Prior experience building security analytics, threat detection systems, or observability platforms.
• Experience building "as-a-service" infrastructure for engineers or external developers.
• Prior experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
• A desire to work on "0-to-1" initiatives, helping define product requirements and user experience.
• Prior React / TypeScript frontend experience is helpful.

Culture & Benefits

• Be a founding member of a newly established engineering team within hirify.global Security.
• Build the foundational infrastructure that provides users with visibility into the security posture of their hirify.global integration.
• Operate at the intersection of high-throughput data engineering and cybersecurity.