Senior/Staff Distributed Systems Engineer (Go)

TL;DR

Senior/Staff Distributed Systems Engineer (Go): Designing and evolving the core control, data, and observability systems for a multimodal AI network infrastructure with an accent on latency, availability, and operational simplicity. Focus on implementing region-spanning architectures, hardening critical paths, and managing distributed state.

Location: Remote (US)

Salary: $120k – $250k + Equity

Company

hirify.global provides essential network infrastructure for multimodal AI interfaces, supporting industry leaders like OpenAI, Character AI, and Meta.

What you will do

• Design and evolve core control, data, and observability systems that power hirify.global Cloud.
• Implement resilient, region-spanning architectures that degrade gracefully under partial failure.
• Build libraries, protocols, and tooling to increase reliability and developer velocity across the organization.
• Diagnose and harden critical paths using metrics, tracing, testing, and real-world traffic insights.
• Shape new platform capabilities across identity, scheduling, observability, and distributed state management.

Requirements

• Must be based in the United States.
• Experience designing and delivering distributed systems in production.
• Fluency in Go or a strong commitment to learn and use it.
• Hands-on experience with pub/sub, RPC, or coordination systems (NATS, etcd, Raft, Paxos).
• Experience with real-time or low-latency infrastructure.
• Proven ability to ship observability tooling at scale (tracing, metrics, logging).

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits.
• Flexible vacation policy.
• Collaboration with a small, senior team that values craft and creativity.
• Opportunity to shape the brand of a fast-growing developer platform.