Distributed Systems Engineer (Python)

Location: Full-time, on-site in Burnaby, Greater Vancouver Area, Canada; in-office attendance is required.

Salary: CAD 89,600–166,400 annually, plus potential bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops technology for chip design, numerical methods, and circuit analysis.

What you will do

• Build scalable distributed infrastructure for a Python-based platform orchestrating high-performance C++ solvers.
• Develop ingestion pipelines and high-performance I/O for large-scale netlists, simulation data, and multi-TB circuit databases.
• Implement serialization and deserialization layers connecting Python and C++ components, along with streaming interfaces for distributed solver results.
• Design fault-tolerant task distribution, scheduling, dependency management, resource allocation, and load balancing across compute clusters.
• Build monitoring and observability for distributed workflows and optimize task granularity.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience building distributed systems with Python.
• Experience with Dask, Spark, Ray, Celery, or a similar distributed computing framework.
• Understanding of distributed computing patterns, data locality, and fault tolerance.
• Experience with HDF5, Parquet, Arrow, or similar high-performance data formats, plus data partitioning and streaming patterns.
• Some experience with Python/C++ interoperability, such as pybind11 or nanobind.
• Strong production Python skills and familiarity with testing, code review, large codebases, and collaborative development.

Nice to have

• Background in EDA, VLSI, semiconductor design, computational engineering, or scientific and engineering data visualization.
• HPC experience with Slurm, PBS, or LSF job schedulers.
• Knowledge of GPU acceleration, cloud platforms, Go, Plotly, Bokeh, Holoviews, or Datashader.
• Open-source contributions to distributed computing projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on greenfield distributed infrastructure alongside experienced engineers and domain experts in circuit simulation and numerical methods.
• Opportunities to develop expertise in production-scale distributed systems, large-scale data pipelines, performance engineering, and reliable observable infrastructure.
• Benefits include paid vacation and holidays, leave programs, RRSP and TFSA plans, employee stock purchase opportunities, and group health coverage.
• Additional coverage includes dental, vision, emotional wellbeing support, life insurance, disability insurance, global travel medical coverage, and a lifestyle spending account.