Staff Production Engineer (Database Infrastructure)

Location: Remote, United States

Salary: USD $140,400–$372,300 per year, with potential benefits, annual bonus, and stock.

Company

hirify.global is an AI-powered developer platform used by more than 180 million developers and over 77,000 organizations to collaborate and build software.

What you will do

• Partner with product and feature teams in design reviews to improve data modeling, access patterns, performance, availability, and operability.
• Design and ship SDKs, client libraries, and internal tooling for engineering teams.
• Define and maintain SLOs and operational standards for the database platform.
• Document technical systems and advocate for reliability and system quality.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and respond to production incidents.
• Contribute to disaster recovery, load-shedding, regional failover, and cloud migration plans.

Requirements

• At least 9 years of relevant software engineering experience, or equivalent experience; degree-based alternatives are accepted.
• At least 3 years of experience operating large-scale distributed systems in production, including on-call participation.
• Production software development experience in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
• Experience with resilient, scalable systems and reliability-focused engineering practices.
• Experience with managed cloud data stores, including Azure Cosmos DB and Azure SQL Database or equivalent technologies.
• Ability to communicate effectively, influence technical decisions, and collaborate on system design and complex reliability problems.

Nice to have

• Experience with partition and index design, consistency tradeoffs, and throughput provisioning.
• Experience diagnosing N+1 queries, hot partitions, unbounded fan-out, cache stampedes, and other scalability issues.
• Experience building production-grade internal tooling, SDKs, or libraries in Go, Python, Ruby, or Rust.
• Experience with cloud migrations, dual-write and backfill strategies, traffic shifting, and rollback planning.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first environment with asynchronous communication across distributed teams and time zones.
• Customer-obsessed, growth-oriented culture focused on ownership, learning, and collaboration.
• Competitive pay with benefits, potential annual bonus, and stock for eligible roles.
• Learning and growth opportunities with support for flexible ways of working.
• Diverse and inclusive workplace with interview accommodations available.