Senior Lead Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Lead Engineer: Managing the Storage Execution team, focusing on the core transactional read/write path for hirify.global's Replicated Storage Services with an accent on durability, availability, and performance. Focus on leading cross-team initiatives, managing customer escalations, and driving process improvements to enhance engineering velocity and code quality.

Location: Must be able and willing to work from the New York City office most days

Salary: $151,000 — $297,000 USD

Company

hirify.global is built for change, empowering customers and people to innovate at the speed of the market by redefining the database for the AI era.

What you will do

• Lead, grow, and manage a New York–based team of 8 to 10 engineers, ensuring clear expectations and high standards.
• Own the team’s roadmap across durability, availability, performance, and developer productivity.
• Manage customer escalations involving storage behavior and durability, working with Support, Atlas, and other server teams.
• Drive process and tooling improvements that raise engineering velocity and code quality.
• Partner with Replication, Query, Sharding, Catalog & Routing, Storage Engines, and Atlas teams on cross‑team features.
• Represent Storage Execution in planning, staffing, and calibration, making thoughtful tradeoffs.

Requirements

• 8+ years building, debugging, and tuning distributed and/or highly concurrent systems software.
• 2+ years managing engineers directly, including hiring, performance management, and coaching.
• Strong proficiency in at least one compiled, statically-typed language such as C++, Rust, or Go.
• Deep understanding of durability, availability, and performance tradeoffs in distributed systems.
• Demonstrated customer obsession: direct experience working with demanding customers.
• Proven ability to develop people: mentoring and promoting engineers, managing underperformance directly.
• Comfortable leading multi‑quarter initiatives with multiple stakeholders and using written documents to align teams.
• Able and willing to work from the New York City office most days, alongside the engineers you lead

Culture & Benefits

• Committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture.
• Employee affinity groups.
• Fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy.
• Flexible paid time off.
• 401(k) plan.
• Mental health counseling.
• Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage.