Staff Software Engineer (Go)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (Go): Building and scaling the Athena system for processing vulnerability reports and managing supply chain security with an accent on backend architecture, data pipeline design, and system reliability. Focus on owning end-to-end domains, establishing technical standards, and driving high-performance team output in a production-ready environment.

Location: Must be based in the US, Canada, or the UK

Salary: $170,000 - $231,000 USD

Company

hirify.global provides hardened, secure, and production-ready open source software builds to help organizations eliminate risk and stay compliant.

What you will do

• Own significant domains within the clearing house, such as customer onboarding, entitlement management, or data validation pipelines.
• Drive the architecture and implementation of backend systems in Go on GCP.
• Design and lead data pipelines that ingest, deduplicate, and structure unstructured vulnerability reports.
• Establish engineering best practices including code review standards, testing, and incident response.
• Partner with leadership on technical planning, architecture alignment, and roadmap sequencing.
• Collaborate with the libraries team to define interface contracts and data quality requirements.

Requirements

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience with a track record of owning large, complex production systems.
• Strong proficiency in Go, GCP, and Terraform.
• Experience building systems that process and validate data from heterogeneous, unstructured sources.
• Proven ability to take business problems from prototype to scalable production services.
• Experience designing systems with complex entitlement levels, access controls, and workflow routing.
• Must be based in the US, Canada, or the UK.

Nice to have

• Background in security, supply chain, or infrastructure domains.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first culture with team meetups and bi-annual destination summits.
• 100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for employees and dependents.
• Flexible time off policy to ensure recharge and reset.
• 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
• Equity participation with 10-year exercise window.
• Monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone, and internet costs.