Distinguished Systems Developer (SQL Engine)

Location: Boston, MA, United States

Salary: $144,000–$205,000 USD per year, plus a discretionary annual variable target incentive.

Company

hirify.global develops data platforms for healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and supply chain customers in more than 80 countries.

What you will do

• Architect and implement query optimization and execution components that scale across petabytes.
• Build query parsing, validation, transformation, plan generation, adaptive execution, code generation, and vectorized execution capabilities.
• Design data processing abstractions and execution engines for SQL, JSON, vector search, graph traversal, and probabilistic joins.
• Integrate the SQL Engine with multi-model storage, indexing, and caching strategies.
• Develop programmable data pipelines that improve downstream ML model performance.
• Mentor engineers, guide technical discussions, and influence long-term system architecture.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in systems-level or database internals engineering.
• Expertise in SQL query engines, optimizers, execution runtimes, or data compiler toolchains.
• Experience with multi-model data systems, including SQL, JSON, vector search, or graph traversal.
• Expertise in at least one systems programming language or LLVM-based code generation environment.
• Strong knowledge of relational algebra, compiler construction, and data-intensive workloads.
• Passion for balancing performance, correctness, and usability; ability to evaluate and verify AI-generated outputs.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI infrastructure or ML inference pipelines.
• PhD degree or published research experience.
• Experience designing and implementing AI-augmented engineering workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Innovation, prototyping, technical ownership, and long-term architectural thinking are encouraged.
• Cross-domain collaboration spans storage, processing, and AI systems.
• Work environment emphasizes deep focus, quality, technical rigor, and sustainable pace.
• Medical, vision, and dental insurance, plus short- and long-term disability and life insurance.
• 401(k) profit-sharing contribution, paid time off, holidays, parental leave, and tuition reimbursement.