Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering

Location: Full-time, in-office position based at the NYC headquarters in Downtown Manhattan, United States

Salary: $121,400–$161,800 USD per year

Company

hirify.global creates large-scale interactive entertainment experiences and develops online services that power its games and player experiences.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain high-throughput streaming and batch data-processing services focused 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, reliability, and performance of streaming and ingestion pipelines under heavy load.
• Contribute to deployment automation, observability, operational tooling, and CI/CD.
• Help design and implement cloud-native 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 and Python in backend or data-processing applications.
• Experience designing and operating streaming systems with Kafka, Kafka Streams, or similar technologies.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, schema evolution, compatibility, and real-time or near-real-time 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 containerized applications with Kubernetes or AKS.
• Experience with artifact repositories such as Artifactory, ProGet, or Maven repositories.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, including Terraform or Databricks Asset Bundles.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure, Apache Spark, CI/CD, automated testing, and deployment workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within an inclusive, collaborative, and highly motivated environment.
• Contribute to petabyte-scale data platforms supporting Data Science and Game Development.
• Potential total compensation package including bonus and/or equity awards.
• Medical, financial, and other employee benefits may be included in the offer.

Hiring process

• Apply with a resume and cover letter demonstrating relevant skills and experience.
• A Rockstar recruiter will contact selected candidates regarding next steps.