Sr. Software Engineer (Systems Engineering, C/C++)

Location: Morrisville, North Carolina; San Jose, California; or Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. The role has hybrid working expectations with some level of in-office or in-person attendance.

Salary: $196,350–$292,600 per year, with compensation determined by location, qualifications, experience, and education.

Company

hirify.global develops intelligent data infrastructure, including unified storage, integrated data services, and cloud-native data management solutions for hyperscaler environments.

What you will do

• Design and develop scalable, resilient, high-performance infrastructure components across storage, networking, virtualization, and Linux systems.
• Drive architecture and technical direction for software-defined storage, virtualization infrastructure, and distributed cloud platform subsystems.
• Architect and optimize storage and networking data paths for performance, scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Provide technical leadership for KVM/QEMU, hypervisor integrations, virtual networking, storage virtualization, and infrastructure orchestration.
• Lead resolution of complex challenges involving distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, virtualization, and enterprise storage.
• Influence technical direction through architecture reviews, design leadership, cross-functional collaboration, mentoring, and technology evaluation.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in systems software engineering, distributed infrastructure, virtualization, storage systems, or cloud infrastructure development.
• Expert-level C/C++ programming skills and strong proficiency in Python.
• Deep expertise in Linux internals, kernel technologies, systems architecture, concurrency, memory management, and performance engineering.
• Experience designing distributed storage systems, software-defined infrastructure platforms, or cloud-native infrastructure services.
• Deep knowledge of KVM/QEMU, virtio, hypervisors, virtual storage, virtual networking, storage subsystems, networking, kernel development, or device drivers.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI, plus technical leadership of large cross-functional initiatives.

Nice to have

• Experience architecting enterprise-scale storage operating systems such as ONTAP or similar platforms.
• Experience with infrastructure modernization or platform transformation initiatives.
• Contributions to open-source systems software, kernel, virtualization, storage, or cloud infrastructure projects.
• Advanced cloud certifications or equivalent recognized expertise.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working environment with in-office and in-person collaboration expectations.
• Health insurance, life insurance, retirement or pension plans, paid time off, and leave options.
• Performance-based incentives, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stock units, subject to regional policies.
• Flexible environment focused on initiative, ownership, collaboration, and work-life balance.

Hiring process

• Applications are reviewed only when submitted through the company website.
• Some stages of the process may use AI tools to support application evaluation and candidate selection alongside human decision-making.