Principal Engineer, Data & Event Intelligence (AI)

Location: Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina; hybrid with 3 days per week onsite. Candidates based in the Buenos Aires vicinity will be prioritized.

Company

hirify.global develops hirify.global Experience Cloud, a SaaS platform for managing experience insights and actions across customer, employee, patient, and resident experiences.

What you will do

• Architect and scale enterprise event-driven systems for real-time intelligence, AI workflows, and autonomous decisioning.
• Design resilient streaming architectures for billions of events using Flink, including stateful processing, windowing, complex event processing, ingestion, routing, enrichment, and egress.
• Build behavioral intelligence, streaming analytics, operational AI feedback loops, and real-time personalization infrastructure.
• Design feature stores, event stores, temporal data systems, telemetry normalization, historical replay, and high-throughput event storage.
• Develop distributed transactional and analytical data layers using YugabyteDB, StarRocks, and vector stores for semantic search, RAG, and AI grounding.
• Set architecture standards, modernize platform strategy, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Infrastructure, AI, and Security teams.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, streaming platforms, or real-time data infrastructure.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and technologies such as Kafka, Pulsar, Flink, Spark Streaming, or Kinesis.
• Experience with low-latency, high-throughput processing, distributed SQL or NoSQL databases, OLAP engines, and vector store architecture.
• Programming experience in Java, Scala, Go, Python, or similar backend technologies, plus cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes.
• Experience leading large-scale technical initiatives across organizational boundaries and designing telemetry, observability, or behavioral data platforms.
• Fluent English, oral and written, is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with operational AI, real-time personalization, agentic systems, event-triggered workflows, or AI orchestration frameworks.
• Experience integrating streaming systems with AI/ML pipelines, inference platforms, recommendation systems, or adaptive decisioning.
• Experience with schema evolution, data governance, multi-tenant event platforms, hybrid retrieval, StarRocks, or YugabyteDB in production.
• Contributions to open-source streaming, data infrastructure, or observability ecosystems.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on distributed systems and real-time intelligence challenges at enterprise scale.
• Build infrastructure for AI-native products, operational AI, autonomous workflows, and adaptive personalization.
• Influence platform strategy across AI, data, and infrastructure engineering.
• Collaborate with engineers and technical leaders on complex enterprise-scale problems.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.