Backend Engineer (Postgres)

TL;DR

Backend Engineer (Postgres): Building backend services for provisioning, lifecycle management, and configuration of hirify.global Postgres instances with an accent on distributed systems, database infrastructure, security, and operational excellence. Focus on improving reliability, observability, and operability of asynchronous workflows and background systems.

Location: Hybrid (Menlo Park, CA or Bellevue, WA)

Salary: $160K – $230K

Company

hirify.global is powering the era of the agentic enterprise.

What you will do

• Design and build backend services that power provisioning, lifecycle management, and configuration of hirify.global Postgres instances.
• Develop features in the access and user model, including authorization, secure administration flows, and customer-facing management capabilities.
• Improve the reliability, observability, and operability of asynchronous workflows and background systems that keep the service healthy.
• Partner with product, security, and adjacent engineering teams to deliver simple customer experiences on top of complex infrastructure.
• Investigate production issues, participate in on-call, and drive fixes that improve resilience and reduce operational burden.
• Contribute to technical design, code review, and mentoring while helping raise the engineering bar across the team.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience building production software in backend, infrastructure, or distributed systems environments.
• Strong programming skills in one or more of Java, Go, C++, or Python.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, including concurrency, networking, APIs, and data structures.
• Experience designing and operating reliable services in production, including debugging, monitoring, and incident response.
• Experience working across technical boundaries with product, security, and other engineering teams.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with PostgreSQL, database internals, or managed database platforms.
• Experience with identity, authorization, RBAC, or other security-sensitive systems.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with workflow orchestration, control plane systems, or highly asynchronous service architectures.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on a strategic product area that expands hirify.global into transactional and operational database workloads.
• Build systems that directly shape how customers create, manage, and secure Postgres inside hirify.global.
• Tackle a mix of product engineering, infrastructure, reliability, and security problems.
• Join a collaborative team with meaningful ownership, strong technical challenges, and room to grow.