Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering

Location: Andover, Massachusetts, United States; full-time, in-office position

Salary: $130,000–$150,000 USD per year

Company

hirify.global creates large-scale entertainment experiences and develops the technology foundation powering its games and online player experiences.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain high-throughput streaming and batch data processing services, with a focus on raw and bronze-level ingestion.
• Develop and operate stream-based applications for real-time data transformation, enrichment, validation, and routing.
• Own event schemas and data contracts, including Avro schemas and Schema Registry governance.
• Ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and performance of ingestion pipelines under heavy load.
• Contribute to deployment automation, observability, operational tooling, and CI/CD.
• Help design and implement cloud-native data infrastructure for real-time and batch workloads.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience building production software systems, preferably in distributed or data-intensive environments.
• Strong experience with Java and/or Scala, as well as Python, in backend or data-processing applications.
• Experience designing and operating streaming systems using Kafka, Kafka Streams, or similar technologies.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, schema evolution, compatibility, and real-time or near-real-time data pipelines at scale.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, including partitioning, fault tolerance, backpressure, and delivery semantics.
• Familiarity with Avro, Protobuf, or similar serialization formats and schema governance practices.

Nice to have

• Experience with Databricks, bronze-layer processing, or structured streaming.
• Experience deploying and scaling applications in containerized environments such as Kubernetes or AKS.
• Experience with artifact repositories, Infrastructure-as-Code, Microsoft Azure, Apache Spark, CI/CD, and automated testing.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work with Data Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, Software Engineers, Analysts, and Data Scientists.
• Work in a highly motivated, inclusive environment focused on learning and collaboration.
• Medical, financial, and other employee benefits may be included in the total compensation package.
• Additional compensation may include a bonus and/or equity awards.

Hiring process

• Submit a resume and cover letter demonstrating relevant experience.
• A Rockstar recruiter will contact selected applicants to explain the next steps.