Senior Software Engineer (Distributed Systems)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Distributed Systems): Designing and operating observability infrastructure for metrics ingestion and alerting at scale with an accent on reliability, performance, and agentic engineering. Focus on building distributed systems, developing platform services for AI agents, and ensuring system resilience across global production environments.

Location: Hybrid (Dublin, Ireland) - Must spend at least 50% of time each quarter in the office.

Salary: €96,000 – €144,000

Company

A Fortune 500 company providing a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents.

What you will do

• Design, build, and debug distributed systems across cloud-native production environments.
• Develop platform services for metrics ingestion, processing, and alerting at scale.
• Shape how AI agents interact with observability infrastructure through tooling, APIs, and operational workflows.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver infrastructure that is resilient, observable, and easy to operate.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with production-grade systems.
• 4+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems on public or private clouds.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: concurrency, fault tolerance, high availability, and failure-mode analysis.
• Proficiency in Go for production services and Python for tooling or automation.
• Experience deploying and operating services on Kubernetes using IaC (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, or GitOps).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with Prometheus-style monitoring ecosystems or time-series metrics pipelines.
• Interest or experience building MCP servers and agent-facing APIs.
• Experience designing scalable HTTP and gRPC APIs in multi-tenant environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Flex Work approach combining in-person time and remote work.
• Eligibility for hirify.global Bonus Plan and annual refresh stock grants.
• Comprehensive benefits package and strong investment in professional growth.
• Culture rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm.