Sr. Software Engineer (Go)

Location: Stamford, Connecticut, USA; hybrid schedule requiring work from the office at least four days per week. The role supports collaboration with teams across the US, UK, EU, and Africa.

Salary: $120,000–$170,000 yearly.

Company

hirify.global is a global media and entertainment company producing and distributing film, television, news, sports, and streaming content through brands including Peacock, NBC, SkyShowtime, Showmax, and NOW/WOW.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance software systems and features, primarily in Go, for large-scale video content delivery.
• Build reliable services supporting VOD, live events, linear channels, dynamic ad insertion, and manifest manipulation.
• Partner with Site Reliability Engineering to design highly available, resilient, performant, and fault-tolerant systems across multiple regions.
• Use metrics, logs, traces, and performance analytics to detect issues and perform data-driven root-cause analysis.
• Contribute to multi-CDN strategies, routing logic, content-origin workflows, and new player technology integrations.
• Participate in code reviews and influence technical direction, architecture, and engineering best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with hands-on Go development, or Python experience.
• Experience deploying and operating cloud applications using containers and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, Git-based repositories, automated testing, and build pipelines.
• Practical knowledge of SRE concepts, including SLIs/SLOs, auto-scaling, distributed-systems reliability, and incident response.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience collaborating across distributed teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with CDNs such as Akamai, CloudFront, Fastly, or Cloudflare.
• Knowledge of HLS, DASH, manifests, content origins, or content routing.
• Experience building global-scale, multi-region, or highly available systems.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies including Scrum or Kanban.

Culture & Benefits

• Company-sponsored medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k), paid leave, and tuition reimbursement.
• Additional employee discounts and other benefits.
• Inclusive workplace focused on collaboration, respect, and community impact.

Hiring process

• External candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview at an hirify.global location before a hiring decision.