Staff Software Engineer (Cloud/AI)

Location: United States - San Mateo, CA

Salary: $158,000–$277,000 annual base salary

Company

hirify.global provides a cloud platform combining digital, core, analytics, and AI capabilities for property and casualty insurers.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across multiple engineering teams.
• Design, build, and operate scalable, secure, multi-tenant SaaS services and platform components.
• Develop microservices, APIs, automation tools, and lifecycle management capabilities for highly available distributed applications.
• Build cloud platform capabilities using AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Kafka, and modern data technologies.
• Drive adoption of AI, agentic coding tools, GenAI capabilities, and advanced engineering automation.
• Own technical design, CI/CD, scalability, availability, observability, reliability, data security, and production readiness.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in cloud platforms, data platforms, distributed systems, SaaS, or platform engineering.
• Deep expertise in Java and large-scale distributed systems, microservices, and API-driven architectures.
• Strong knowledge of consistency, availability, durability, reliability, fault tolerance, scalability, consensus, algorithms, data structures, concurrency, and performance optimization.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, AWS or another public cloud, Docker, infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience building or integrating data platforms, machine learning platforms, or large-scale data processing systems.
• Ability to communicate complex technical ideas, influence stakeholders, lead technical direction, and mentor engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience with Large Language Models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, vector databases, AI agents, agentic workflows, or Model Context Protocol.
• Proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or Go.
• Experience building SaaS, PaaS, or developer platforms on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience with TeamCity, Argo Workflows, event-driven architecture, or Kafka-based systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, customer-centric engineering environment with cross-functional work across product, architecture, security, operations, and solutions teams.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Paid time off and a company-sponsored retirement plan.
• Potential eligibility for annual bonuses, commissions, and long-term incentive awards depending on the role and performance.
• Disability accommodations and an appeals process are available during hiring.