Staff Software Engineer (Data Infrastructure)

Location: San Francisco, CA; applicants must be located in San Francisco and open to working in office

Salary: $200,000–$275,000 USD annually, plus benefits, equity if applicable, and bonus if applicable

Company

hirify.global builds an AI-enabled platform that turns siloed data into operational intelligence for public safety organizations, government agencies, and private-sector institutions.

What you will do

• Design and operate a high-throughput, real-time data integration platform across diverse customer environments.
• Architect scalable open table format infrastructure for reliable petabyte-scale data storage.
• Build and optimize distributed batch and streaming data processing pipelines.
• Improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency across the data infrastructure stack.
• Define data contracts, schemas, and integration patterns with platform and product engineering teams.
• Establish best practices, tooling, and reusable patterns for data infrastructure.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience architecting and operating large-scale data infrastructure systems in production.
• Deep expertise in Apache Iceberg, including schema evolution, partitioning, compaction, and time travel.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Apache Spark for batch and streaming processing at scale.
• Strong experience with Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, or equivalent stream-processing technologies, plus Airflow or similar orchestration tools.
• Production software engineering experience with Python and/or Scala, AWS or comparable cloud platforms, S3-based data lakes, and Kubernetes.
• Located in San Francisco and open to working in office. A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, is required.

Nice to have

• Experience working across the full data stack, from ingestion through serving.
• Experience defining durable infrastructure solutions for ambiguous, open-ended technical problems.

Culture & Benefits

• Annual salary plus benefits, equity if applicable, and bonus if applicable.
• Ownership of major features and foundational infrastructure decisions.
• Close collaboration with deployment teams, users, platform engineers, and product engineers.
• Emphasis on empathy, humility, perseverance, creativity, and operational excellence.
• Inclusive workplace and equal employment opportunity.