Staff and Principal Software Engineers (AI/Cloud)

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco, CA or Boston, MA

Compensation: $220,000–$290,000 per year, plus equity and bonus

Company

hirify.global builds an AI financial control plane that connects enterprise AI spending with the outcomes produced across cloud and AI providers.

What you will do

• Own significant technical domains end to end, including architecture, implementation, and long-term system health.
• Design and operate backend data processing, storage, query infrastructure, billing connectors, AI telemetry agents, and customer-facing cost intelligence features.
• Make and communicate high-impact technical decisions across teams and stakeholders.
• Drive improvements in performance, scalability, and reliability before they become incidents.
• Collaborate with product, engineering leadership, and customers to scope and deliver solutions.
• Raise the technical bar through code review, design feedback, mentorship, and direct technical leadership.

Requirements

• Significant experience building and operating production backend systems at scale.
• Strong proficiency in Python and/or another backend language, with the ability to read and reason about systems written in unfamiliar languages.
• Deep familiarity with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, distributed systems, and the tradeoffs of operating at scale.
• Production experience with data pipelines, ETL frameworks, or stream processing.
• Strong SQL skills and hands-on experience with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or similar.
• Hands-on use of AI tools in data platform work, including the ability to explain workflows and failure modes.
• Experience building a library, pattern, or service adopted by other internal teams.
• Ability to communicate technical complexity clearly to engineers, product, and leadership, with a track record of shipping production work.
• High autonomy and willingness to identify and solve important problems without being assigned a ticket.

Nice to have

• Experience building or operating agents, telemetry systems, or observability tooling.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, especially in customer-managed environments.
• Experience with AWS Step Functions, Lambda, or event-driven architectures.
• Background in FinOps, billing systems, or financial data infrastructure.
• Exposure to ML pipelines or AI workload cost modeling.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, fast-moving environment focused on ownership, creativity, and curiosity.
• Work on complex cloud and AI cost intelligence challenges with direct customer impact.
• Equity and bonus are included in the compensation package.
• hirify.global is scaling after processing 14 trillion billing events in the last twelve months.