Staff Software Engineer (Quality & Reliability)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (Quality & Reliability): Driving company-wide technical strategy for building, shipping, and operating reliable software with an accent on architectural standards, observability, and release safety. Focus on identifying systemic risks, building platform capabilities, and enabling product teams to deliver high-quality software with speed and confidence.

Location: Must be based in the U.S. (excluding Alaska, Hawaii, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming). Hybrid work schedules available with hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Raleigh.

Compensation: $172,000–$229,000 base salary + annual bonus + equity.

Company

hirify.global is a unicorn-status commercial trade platform transforming the multi-billion dollar commercial contracting industry with AI-driven tools.

What you will do

• Define and drive the technical strategy for engineering quality, production reliability, and safe software delivery.
• Identify systemic sources of customer-impacting failures and lead cross-team initiatives to address root causes.
• Establish architectural principles and paved roads that make reliable system design easier by default.
• Partner with engineering teams during design phases to improve resilience, operability, and testability.
• Build shared platform capabilities for release safety, automated validation, and developer self-service.
• Advance observability strategies to improve system behavior understanding and failure diagnosis.

Requirements

• Significant experience operating at a Staff level on ambiguous, cross-cutting technical problems.
• Must be based in the U.S. (excluding specific states listed above).
• Track record of leading multi-team initiatives that improved production reliability or engineering effectiveness.
• Strong systems thinking with experience designing and operating distributed systems in AWS.
• Proficiency in TypeScript, Java, or another relevant language.
• Ability to influence architecture and engineering practices across teams without direct authority.

Culture & Benefits

• Generous equity grant and ownership opportunities.
• Comprehensive benefits package including health coverage.
• Flexible PTO and hybrid work schedules.
• One-time work-from-home allowance.
• In-office lunch provided for hybrid days at company hubs.