Senior Software Engineer – Authentication & Authorization - RTP (C++)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (C++): Building high-performance authentication and authorization services for a large-scale distributed storage system with an accent on low latency, scalability, and external AAA integration. Focus on designing critical authorization paths, solving complex concurrency challenges, and ensuring system reliability under enterprise workloads.

Location: RTP, North Carolina

Company

hirify.global is building a high-performance data platform for the AI era, providing software infrastructure for massive datasets across data centers, edge, and cloud.

What you will do

• Design and implement authentication and authorization services using modern C/C++ on Linux.
• Integrate distributed storage workloads with external AAA services and their wire protocols.
• Build low-latency, highly scalable authorization paths for demanding enterprise workloads.
• Own features end-to-end, from requirements and design to implementation, testing, and production support.
• Debug complex production issues using traces, metrics, and logs.
• Optimize performance, scalability, and resource utilization for AI infrastructure deployments.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering experience with modern C/C++.
• Experience building production systems in distributed systems, storage systems, or networking/TCP/IP.
• Deep understanding of concurrency, synchronization, and failure handling for long-running services.
• Comfort working close to operating system, storage, and networking boundaries.
• Proven ownership of production systems from initial design through long-term maintenance.
• Strong debugging and performance analysis skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to join one of the fastest-growing infrastructure companies at the heart of the AI revolution.
• Engineering-centric culture focused on delivering high-impact features to production.
• Environment that prioritizes actual engineering over unnecessary meetings and isolated prototypes.
• Direct ownership of critical infrastructure components used by large enterprise customers.