Senior Software Engineer - Orchestration & Job Execution (Cloud Platform)

Location: US - Remote

Salary: $120,000–$160,000 for most U.S. locations; $130,000–$175,000 for Zone A locations

Company

hirify.global develops cloud-based data, automation, and AI capabilities that help organizations make business decisions and automate work.

What you will do

• Design, build, operate, and evolve backend services, APIs, workers, and shared libraries for hirify.global Cloud.
• Develop orchestration and job-execution capabilities, including submission, execution tracking, status propagation, retries, cancellation, results, and operational visibility.
• Build asynchronous and event-driven systems using queues, messaging, background workers, durable state, and distributed service coordination.
• Maintain cloud-native runtime infrastructure with containers, Kubernetes, deployment automation, persistence layers, event streams, and REST APIs.
• Improve production reliability through metrics, tracing, structured logging, health checks, dashboards, alerting, runbooks, and incident follow-up.
• Lead technical design, review code, mentor engineers, and collaborate with platform, product, security, QE, and application teams.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional software development experience with ownership of production backend services, cloud platforms, or distributed systems.
• Strong experience with TypeScript, Node.js, or comparable backend technologies for services, APIs, shared libraries, or long-running workers.
• Experience designing and operating asynchronous, queue-driven, or event-driven systems, including retries, cancellation, idempotency, concurrency, ordering, timeouts, and failure handling.
• Experience with durable persistence, service contracts, RESTful APIs, multi-service integrations, containers, Kubernetes or similar orchestration platforms, scaling, and operational debugging.
• Strong production engineering practices, including testing, observability, logging, metrics, tracing, incident response, and continuous reliability improvement.
• Ability to lead design discussions, communicate technical tradeoffs, mentor engineers, and drive cross-team work through ambiguity.

Nice to have

• Experience with workflow engines, orchestration systems, job runners, task-execution platforms, or runtime infrastructure.
• Experience with Kubernetes deployment patterns, GitOps, multi-cluster environments, cloud operations, or infrastructure automation.
• Experience with messaging systems, event contracts, schema management, notification pipelines, or distributed service coordination.
• Experience with secure service-to-service authentication, secrets management, authorization boundaries, or customer-scoped execution contexts.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote full-time employment in the United States.
• Benefits may include bonuses or commissions, medical coverage, retirement benefits, wellness support, paid time off, and employee discounts.
• Growth-oriented environment supporting associates throughout their careers.
• Commitment to diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams.
• The position involves software and technology subject to U.S. export controls.