Big Data Platform & Distributed Systems Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Big Data Platform & Distributed Systems Engineer (AI): Building and owning large-scale data pipelines and observability systems that power metrics, logging, and real-time insights across services with an accent on designing reliable telemetry pipelines and ensuring data quality at scale. Focus on integrating AI agents into human workflows, optimizing core Spark performance, and solving distributed systems challenges.

Location: Bellevue, WA

Company

hirify.global is a company leveraging Public Cloud (AWS/GCP) and Kubernetes to power the next generation of data-driven intelligence.

What you will do

• Build and own large-scale data pipelines and observability systems.
• Design reliable telemetry pipelines and improve monitoring and alerting.
• Ensure data quality and system visibility at scale.
• Optimize core Spark performance and solve distributed systems challenges.
• Build scalable AI infrastructure, including exploring efficient ways to run smaller language models.
• Critically evaluate code (Human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of distributed systems design, including scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency trade-offs in large-scale data platforms.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale data pipelines, ETL workflows, or streaming data systems.
• Experience with big data and data platform technologies such as Spark, Flink, Kafka, Trino, HBase, or similar.
• Experience operating data platforms or infrastructure services at enterprise scale.
• Experience building or operating observability systems, telemetry pipelines, or monitoring platforms.
• Experience using metrics, logging, and telemetry to drive operational excellence.

Nice to have

• A demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering.
• Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, etc.) in development workflows.
• Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to write precise, structured prompts.

Culture & Benefits

• Wellbeing reimbursement.
• Generous parental leave.
• Adoption assistance.
• Fertility benefits.