Principal Production Engineer

Location: Remote, United States

Base salary: USD $160,200–$425,000 per year, with potential benefits, annual bonus, and stock rewards.

Company

hirify.global is an AI-powered developer platform used by developers and organizations to build, ship, and operate software.

What you will do

• Embed with engineering teams to improve the reliability, scalability, and operability of production systems.
• Own complex production problems from live-incident debugging through long-term engineering solutions.
• Design, build, and operate software and infrastructure for production environments.
• Improve observability, capacity planning, performance, resiliency, and operational readiness with product and infrastructure teams.
• Write production-quality code, automate operational workflows, and eliminate repetitive manual work.
• Participate in incident response, mentor engineers, and establish operational excellence practices across teams.

Requirements

• 9+ years of software engineering experience with a bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience; alternative education and experience combinations are accepted.
• Proven experience maintaining and delivering production software in languages such as Go, Rust, C++, Java, Python, C#, or similar.
• Experience designing, operating, and debugging large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience improving high availability, automation, observability, and system reliability.
• Experience with Linux, networking fundamentals, and systems performance.
• Ability to influence technical direction across teams without direct authority.

Nice to have

• Experience operating services at scale.
• Experience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, service networking, databases, or distributed storage systems.
• Experience leading incident response and driving operational improvements across organizations.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools and building reliability practices across multiple teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work environment.
• Competitive pay with benefits and potential annual bonus and stock rewards.
• Learning and growth opportunities.
• Values include customer focus, ownership, continuous learning, inclusion, and collaboration.