Senior Platform Software Engineer (Cache, Query and Compute Platforms)

Location: McLean, Virginia; hybrid with 3 days per week onsite. Candidates based in the Tysons vicinity will be prioritized.

Salary: $138,000–$205,000 annual base salary.

Company

hirify.global provides the hirify.global Experience Cloud, a SaaS platform for managing customer, employee, patient, candidate, and resident experiences.

What you will do

• Operate and maintain Redis, Kvrocks, Trino, and Spark platforms in production.
• Manage cluster deployments, replication, persistence, failover, upgrades, capacity, and performance.
• Troubleshoot Trino query execution, catalogs, S3 access, Hive Metastore integrations, and Spark cluster health.
• Lead production incident triage, root-cause analysis, performance tuning, and recovery validation.
• Review application architectures and production-readiness requirements.
• Build automation, monitoring, alerts, documentation, and troubleshooting playbooks while participating in a periodic 24/7 on-call rotation.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in software, systems, platform, DevOps, or reliability engineering.
• At least 3 years of experience operating distributed platforms in production.
• Hands-on production experience managing and scaling at least two of Redis, Kvrocks, Trino, or Spark.
• Experience with incident triage, root-cause analysis, performance optimization, disaster recovery, automated failover, cluster re-sharding, and zero-downtime upgrades.
• Programming experience in Java, Go, Python, or a similar language.
• Experience conducting architecture reviews, writing technical design documents, and establishing operational runbooks.

Nice to have

• Experience operating distributed platforms on Kubernetes or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience integrating Trino with object storage, Hive Metastore, or external data catalogs.
• Experience with observability, capacity planning, platform automation, and failure-mode testing.
• Experience supporting large-scale, business-critical cache, query, or compute platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k), disability, life, and AD&D insurance.
• Statutory leaves, paid parental leave, and paid holidays.
• Equal opportunity workplace committed to diversity and inclusion.