Senior Software Engineer - Platform (Java)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer - Platform (Java): Building the observability and core services foundation for a unified lakehouse platform with an accent on telemetry, distributed systems, infrastructure automation, and scalable application frameworks. Focus on designing customer telemetry pipelines, implementing AI-assisted alerting, and solving persistence, caching, networking, and access-control challenges at enterprise scale.

Location: Remote from Portugal

Company

hirify.global develops an open unified lakehouse platform for self-service analytics and AI, supporting cloud, hybrid, and on-premises data environments for global enterprises.

What you will do

• Build and own an observability platform for customer events, logs, and traces using OpenTelemetry.
• Deliver dashboards and visualizations that provide real-time visibility into system health, issues, and trends.
• Design telemetry-driven notification and alerting systems using heuristics, AI agents, and lakehouse intelligence.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code with Helm and Terraform and maintain standardized application frameworks.
• Partner with SRE, DevOps, product, Support, and Field teams to define best practices and deliver reliable platform solutions.
• Deliver integration milestones with the SAP HANA/BDC platform and engage with the developer community to improve the platform roadmap.

Requirements

• Bachelor's, Master's, or higher degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years with Java.
• 2+ years of hands-on infrastructure-as-code experience with Helm, Terraform, or equivalent tools.
• Deep experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry or comparable observability platforms.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, and HTTP.

Nice to have

• Experience building SaaS microservices and distributed systems.
• Experience with multithreaded or asynchronous programming, NoSQL databases, Redis, or CI/CD tooling.
• Additional programming experience with C++, Go, Python, Node, or Rust.
• Knowledge of query processing, concurrency control, data replication, storage systems, Java GC and heap tuning, Apache Arrow, SQL operators, or data-path optimization.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on foundational systems used across a large-scale lakehouse platform.
• Collaborate with globally distributed engineering, product, SRE, Support, and Field teams.
• Culture centered on clear communication, accountability, respect, rigorous thinking, and results.
• Equal opportunity employer with accommodations available throughout the application and interview process.