Principal Software Engineer (Hosting)

TL;DR

Principal Software Engineer (Hosting): Architecting, building, and evolving core services for the hosting platform powering 700,000+ websites and 17 billion monthly page views with an accent on reliability, scalability, performance, and AI-native practices. Focus on distributed systems design, edge delivery optimization, container orchestration, database services, and integrating AI tools for debugging, automation, and architectural decisions.

United States (Remote). Visa sponsorship not available. E-Verify required post-offer.

Salary: $187,200 - $234,000 USD per year

Company

hirify.global powers more than 300,000 websites globally for organizations like Google, Princeton, and the United Nations using a WebOps platform for WordPress, Drupal, and Next.js sites.

What you will do

• Define and drive the technical roadmap for platform reliability, scalability, and performance across hundreds of thousands of sites and billions of monthly requests.
• Architect, build, and evolve core services including edge delivery, container orchestration, database services, and site lifecycle management.
• Partner with product, security, and infrastructure teams to identify root causes and design high-impact solutions.
• Balance immediate business needs against long-term architectural health with principled trade-offs.
• Provide technical leadership, review designs, and raise standards for quality, reliability, and operability.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to a culture of collaboration, blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software development experience, with significant tenure building platform or infrastructure products.
• 5+ years designing and architecting large-scale distributed systems.
• Proficiency with container orchestration (Kubernetes), web server technologies (NGINX, PHP, Node.js), and infrastructure-as-code.
• Demonstrated ability to own and improve a production platform serving millions of concurrent users or requests.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or equivalent systems-oriented languages.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructure (Google Cloud), CDN/edge systems, multi-tenant platforms, and database services.

Nice to have

• AI-native engineering practices including fluency with AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code).
• Experience building agentic and LLM-powered systems with task orchestration, prompt engineering, and RAG.
• Awareness of infrastructure for AI workloads including model serving and inference optimization.

Culture & Benefits

• Industry competitive compensation and equity plan.
• Flexible time off, sick days, and 13 paid holidays.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance; paid parental leave and family planning benefits.
• Monthly allowance for wellness, reading, and LinkedIn Learning.
• Events and activities for team and company-wide inspiration and development.
• In-office workspaces available in San Francisco and Chicago.