Senior Software Engineer (Data Storage)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Data Storage): Building and evolving high-performance data storage solutions for hirify.global’s application stack with an accent on scalability, reliability, and performance at scale. Focus on designing data models and access patterns, improving observability and incident response, and partnering across teams to deliver resilient, cost-effective infrastructure.

Location: San Francisco, California (Hybrid)

Salary: $190K–$240K + equity

Company

hirify.global is a configurable identity platform that helps businesses verify individuals and organizations in a digital-first world.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and secure data stores used across the application stack.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, and application teams to optimize data storage for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
• Implement and advocate best practices for data modeling, access patterns, monitoring, and incident response.
• Contribute to automation, observability, and proactive capacity planning.
• Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and mentor junior engineers.
• Partner with other engineering teams to deliver complex initiatives and shape system design and implementation technologies.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on large-scale, distributed data systems.
• Strong expertise designing and operating scalable data storage solutions (MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis).
• Experience with cloud-native architectures, particularly Google Cloud (or equivalent providers).
• Deep understanding of data consistency, replication, partitioning, and high availability strategies.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• General-purpose programming experience (Ruby, Go, Python, Java), with preference for Ruby on Rails and ORMs.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance; 3% 401(k) contribution; unlimited PTO; quarterly mental health days.
• Family planning benefits and wellness benefits.
• Professional development stipend.
• Hybrid setup with an Infrastructure team that is fully remote and spans the US and Canada.

Hiring process

• Interview process includes identity verification with hirify.global to confirm candidates are who they claim to be.