Senior Streaming Software Engineer (Kafka)

Location: San Francisco, CA, United States; on-site

Salary: $170,000–$205,000 per year plus bonus; Restricted Stock Units included.

Company

hirify.global is an AI infrastructure company building and operating vertically integrated energy, data center, cloud, and computing infrastructure for large-scale AI workloads.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain streaming services and pipelines for logs, metrics, traces, and operational events.
• Implement real-time data processing with Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub, Flink, or similar platforms.
• Scale telemetry ingestion for high-throughput, high-cardinality, and bursty infrastructure workloads.
• Improve reliability and observability through instrumentation, dashboards, alerting, automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
• Collaborate with SRE and platform teams to integrate streaming data into internal observability tools and operational workflows.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, post-incident reviews, and technical design discussions.

Requirements

• Strong experience building and operating distributed systems, particularly streaming or real-time data platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar distributed streaming technologies.
• Proficiency in Java, Scala, Go, or Python.
• Experience operating services in cloud or large-scale infrastructure environments.
• Solid understanding of metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and production debugging across distributed systems.
• Ability to own features end-to-end and collaborate with engineering teams.

Nice to have

• Experience building observability platforms at cloud or data center scale.
• Familiarity with stream processing frameworks, delivery semantics, schema management, data contracts, or serialization formats.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containerized infrastructure, bare-metal infrastructure, or large-scale data centers.
• Interest in mentoring junior engineers.

Culture & Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units in a fast-growing, well-funded technology company.
• Health, vision, and dental insurance options, including HDHP and PPO plans, with dependent coverage.
• Employer HSA contributions, paid parental leave, life insurance, disability coverage, and a 401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary.
• Paid time off, holidays, tuition reimbursement, cell phone reimbursement, Calm subscription, and MetLife Legal.
• Company-paid commuter benefit of $300 per month.