Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

TL;DR

Software Engineer (Infrastructure): Building distributed systems, services, and frameworks to ensure platform reliability at scale with an accent on traffic control, load testing, and resilience engineering. Focus on designing critical path components, implementing SLO/SLI frameworks, and developing tooling to improve incident response and system stability.

Location: Remote (Poland)

Salary: PLN 520K – PLN 580K

Company

hirify.global is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe, enabling sellers to build businesses across diverse categories.

What you will do

• Design and build distributed systems that support reliability, resiliency, and safe operation at scale.
• Develop traffic control mechanisms including circuit breakers, rate limiting, and backpressure.
• Build and evolve load testing and chaos testing frameworks to validate system behavior.
• Implement systems for defining SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Develop tooling to improve incident detection, response, and automated mitigation.
• Review service architectures to identify failure modes and scalability limits.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python, Elixir, or Go (or willingness to learn).
• Experience with cloud-native environments such as AWS or GCP with Kubernetes.
• Strong fundamentals in operating shared production services and frameworks.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and debugging of production systems.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with high-traffic, real-time, or event-driven systems.
• Experience building developer-facing tools, frameworks, or platform libraries.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced environment in a rapidly growing marketplace.
• Equity compensation included.
• Collaborative culture focused on outcomes and impact.
• Opportunity to shape infrastructure for a new industry.