Senior Software Engineer (Go)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Go): Building and owning the infrastructure for a data-intensive marketing automation platform with an accent on distributed systems, high-throughput event processing, and system reliability. Focus on designing fault-tolerant architectures, scaling services under production pressure, and optimizing data pipelines to handle billions of daily events.

Location: Must be based in the Americas (Remote)

Salary: $150,000 - $200,000 USD

Company

hirify.global is a data-driven marketing automation platform that helps over 9,000 companies send smarter, more relevant messages using real-time behavioral data.

What you will do

• Design and evolve distributed systems in Go to handle billions of daily events and petabytes of data.
• Lead architectural decisions regarding performance, reliability, and real-time event processing.
• Improve service-to-service communication through robust APIs, messaging systems, and event-driven patterns.
• Collaborate across teams to identify and resolve system bottlenecks to improve customer experience.
• Debug production systems at scale using advanced instrumentation and observability tools.
• Leverage AI tools to prototype, accelerate development, and inform technical decision-making.

Requirements

• Must be based in the Americas
• Significant experience (10+ years) building scalable, distributed systems in Go or similar statically typed languages.
• Deep expertise with relational (MySQL, Postgres) and non-relational (DynamoDB, BigTable) databases.
• Strong proficiency in cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP).
• Proven ability to debug and operate production systems at scale.
• Bias for action and strong sense of ownership over technical decisions.

Nice to have

• Experience with event-driven systems, message queues, or complex data pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% coverage of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and supplemental insurance premiums for you and your family.
• 16 weeks paid parental leave.
• Unlimited PTO policy.
• Stipends for remote work and wellness.
• Dedicated professional development budget.

Hiring process

• Recruiter call (30 mins) to discuss role and expectations.
• Behavioral interview (60 mins) focusing on ownership and collaboration.
• System design interview (60 mins) focused on scaling challenges.
• Coding interview (60 mins) involving pair programming.