Staff Software Engineer (Platform Engineering)

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company

hirify.global provides AI-powered IT management and cybersecurity software for managed service providers and internal IT organizations worldwide.

What you will do

• Lead the design and evolution of large-scale distributed systems and platform architectures.
• Define technical direction across multiple teams, focusing on scalability, reliability, maintainability, and operational excellence.
• Drive AI-assisted development practices that improve engineering velocity, code quality, and delivery outcomes.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership on technical priorities, roadmap decisions, and platform modernization.
• Lead architecture discussions, design reviews, code reviews, and technical planning.
• Improve observability, incident response, reliability practices, and technical debt management across production systems.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building production applications or platform services.
• Experience leading technical design or architecture decisions across multiple teams or services.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems in cloud environments using AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience building full-stack applications, APIs, or platform services with Rust, C#, JavaScript, or similar technologies.
• Experience supporting production systems, including observability, incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements.

Nice to have

• Experience with OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Pulumi, or Bicep.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and progressive deployment strategies.
• Experience with relational and non-relational data stores and architecture trade-offs.
• Experience leading secure coding, threat modeling, or vulnerability remediation initiatives.
• Experience introducing AI-assisted development tools or workflows across engineering teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a high-growth, high-performance environment focused on innovation, accountability, and results.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams across a global software organization.
• Equal employment opportunity is provided to employees and applicants.