Senior Software Engineer (Distributed Systems)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Distributed Systems): Building and operating the foundational infrastructure for customer boundaries and distributed coordination with an accent on cross-cell routing, replication infrastructure, and lifecycle orchestration. Focus on designing safe platform primitives and ensuring system reliability at global scale.

Salary: CAD 200,000–295,000

Company

hirify.global provides an application monitoring standard that helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice.

What you will do

• Build and enhance control plane systems managing customer identity and placement across a multi-cell architecture.
• Improve the reliability, scalability, and observability of mission-critical control plane services.
• Partner with engineering teams to provide safe infrastructure primitives and standards for cell-compatible systems.
• Operate critical infrastructure through incident response and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
• Strong proficiency with Python.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Deep understanding of replication, consistency models, and service coordination.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerized systems (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proven track record of operating production systems with strong ownership.

Nice to have

• Experience with Rust.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive employee benefit plans including incentive compensation and equity grants.
• Paid time off and group health insurance coverage.
• Commitment to equal opportunity and a diverse, inclusive culture.
• Open-source philosophy aimed at making software development accessible to everyone.