Staff Engineer (Distributed Systems)

TL;DR

Staff Engineer (Distributed Systems): Designing and evolving core control, data, and observability systems for multimodal AI infrastructure with an accent on latency, availability, and operational simplicity. Focus on building region-spanning architectures, implementing consensus protocols, and hardening critical paths for high-scale traffic.

Location: Remote (North America)

Compensation: $200K – $300K + Equity

Company

hirify.global provides the essential network infrastructure powering multimodal AI interfaces for industry leaders like OpenAI, Spotify, and Meta.

What you will do

• Design and evolve the core control, data, and observability systems that power hirify.global Cloud.
• Implement resilient, region-spanning architectures that degrade gracefully under partial failure.
• Build libraries, protocols, and tooling to increase reliability and developer velocity across the organization.
• Diagnose and harden critical paths using metrics, tracing, testing, and real-world traffic insights.
• Shape platform capabilities across identity, scheduling, observability, and distributed state management.

Requirements

• Experience designing and delivering distributed systems in production.
• Ability to take end-to-end ownership from prototyping and testing to shipping and monitoring.
• Deep understanding of consensus, coordination, and distributed failure modes.
• Strong thinking in terms of data flow, state, performance, and correctness.
• Must be based in North America.

Nice to have

• Fluency in Go.
• Hands-on experience with pub/sub, RPC, or coordination systems (NATS, etcd, Raft, Paxos).
• Exposure to real-time or low-latency infrastructure.
• Experience shipping at-scale observability tooling (tracing, metrics, logging).

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package.
• Health, dental, and vision benefits.
• Flexible vacation policy.
• Collaboration with a small, senior team that deeply values craft and creativity.
• Opportunity to shape the brand of a fast-growing developer platform.