Staff Engineer, DevOps (C++/CMake)

Location: On-site in San Diego, California or Dallas, Texas, United States

Salary: $150,000–$220,000 per year, plus bonus, benefits, and equity for regular full-time employees.

Company

hirify.global is a venture-backed defense-tech company developing intelligent systems, autonomous aircraft, autonomy software, and simulation technologies.

What you will do

• Own and maintain the native C++ build system for XBAT and V-BAT autonomous aircraft software.
• Improve developer velocity by reducing build and test cycle times and removing CI pipeline bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with software engineers to design and implement build and integration solutions.
• Integrate CI pipelines with hardware-in-the-loop and simulation environments for automated validation.
• Implement monitoring, dashboards, and alerts for local and CI build-system performance.
• Use agentic solutions to identify build-failure root causes and provide actionable feedback to engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field with 7+ years of industry experience; or a master’s/PhD with 5+ years.
• Deep expertise in CMake and C++, or equivalent native software build technologies.
• Strong understanding of dependency management and proficiency with Conan or CPM.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud build clusters, Python, Bash, and automated testing in CI pipelines.
• Proficiency with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitLab, plus cloud operations experience in Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, monitoring, and ideally robotics, autonomy, or aerospace systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time regular employee package includes salary within the listed range, bonus, benefits, and equity.
• Work is performed on-site within the V-BAT Engineering Software division.
• Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
• Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits.