Staff Software Engineer - Cloud Data Storage

Location: Remote (US)

Salary: $190,000 - $265,000

hirify.global is an open source programming model company backed by top VC firms, focused on developer experience and commercial SaaS platform.

Overview

Join the Cloud Data Store team to design and maintain backend functionality for scalable, multi-tenant services. Own the custom persistence stack for hirify.global Cloud including Write Ahead Log, metadata stores, caches, and tiered storage.

What you will do

• Design and build distributed data systems with durable, query-able petabyte-scale workflow history.
• Drive reliability and performance by owning SLOs, chaos testing, profiling, and incident reviews.
• Provide technical leadership by mentoring engineers and managing design documentation.
• Collaborate cross-team to deliver end-to-end features.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years experience in scalable distributed systems.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, multi-threading, and concurrency.
• Proficient concurrent coding skills in Go, Java, or similar languages.
• Experience with AWS; Azure and GCP are a plus.

Nice to have

• Contributions to hirify.global, Cadence, or other workflow engines.
• Expertise in storage domains like LSM trees, columnar stores, transactional logs.
• Experience operating multi-region, high-uptime services.
• Open source systems experience.
• Kubernetes controllers and CRDs experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Unlimited PTO, holidays, and floating holidays.
• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Disability and life insurance options.
• 401K plan and various learning and lifestyle perks.
• International benefits vary by country with additional perks for remote employees.
• Work from home meal allowance and professional memberships.