Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform

Location: Canada (Remote)

Salary: $135,800–$169,700 CAD per year

Company

hirify.global operates a multitenant, container-based WebOps platform that powers more than 300,000 WordPress and Drupal websites in the cloud.

What you will do

• Extend the configuration-driven data platform to deliver product insights and support Machine Learning and LLM-driven applications.
• Architect and enhance Ingest as a Service, Curation as a Service, and Retention as a Service.
• Build and operate data infrastructure using Snowflake, Snowpark for Python, Google Cloud Platform, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Lead technical direction, mentor engineers, and raise standards for coding, testing, deployment, and communication.
• Partner with Product, Sales, Operations, Finance, and other teams to deliver data solutions.
• Participate in on-call support and own the full development, testing, deployment, and operations lifecycle.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building production data systems, including large-scale pipelines, cloud databases, and real-time data events.
• Deep knowledge of distributed data systems, scalable data modeling for OLAP and OLTP, data governance, observability, and data quality.
• Experience setting technical direction, making architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong hands-on Python experience and experience with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Firebolt, or Redshift.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform or a comparable cloud environment, containers, Kubernetes, Terraform, Airflow, and CI/CD for data workflows.
• Experience supporting Machine Learning and LLM infrastructure, such as feature stores, embedding or vector pipelines, or model-ready data services.

Nice to have

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform is preferred.
• Hands-on use of AI tools to accelerate development and engineering work.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, autonomous, no-blame engineering culture centered on trust, teamwork, passion, and customer focus.
• Flexible time off, sick days, and 13 paid holidays.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Paid parental leave and fertility, adoption, and family-planning benefits.
• Wellness and reading allowance, LinkedIn Learning access, and team and company events.
• Visa sponsorship is not available.