Senior Member of Technical Staff (Distributed Systems)

Location: Hybrid; in applicable workplaces, onsite at least 3 days per week. Listed locations include San Jose, Durham, Mexico City, Bangalore, Pune, Hoofddorp, Belgrade, Barcelona, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo.

Company

hirify.global develops enterprise hybrid-cloud infrastructure and the Prism management and control plane for clusters, virtual machines, storage, networking, and platform operations.

What you will do

• Lead architecture and design for major Prism platform initiatives spanning multiple services and engineering teams.
• Design and build highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems addressing scalability, consistency, concurrency, service discovery, and failure recovery.
• Evolve Prism APIs, management workflows, lifecycle management, deployment, upgrades, observability, diagnostics, and operational infrastructure.
• Drive technical decisions through design reviews, architecture discussions, RFCs, and engineering standards.
• Identify technical risks, deliver complex cross-functional initiatives, and collaborate with product management, customer support, and platform teams.
• Mentor engineers and improve code quality, testing automation, performance measurement, incident analysis, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building distributed systems, infrastructure software, or large-scale backend platforms.
• Experience leading the technical design and delivery of complex cross-team engineering initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems architecture, consensus, coordination, high availability, fault tolerance, concurrency, replication, consistency models, and service-oriented architectures.
• Strong proficiency in Go or another systems programming language.
• Production experience with Linux, networking, containers, Kubernetes, storage, virtualization, performance analysis, and debugging.
• Experience designing REST and/or gRPC APIs, plus knowledge of authentication, authorization, TLS, X.509 certificates, identity management, CI/CD, and reliability engineering.

Nice to have

• Experience building management or control-plane software, cloud infrastructure, or virtualization platforms.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes operators, cloud-native architectures, observability platforms, distributed tracing, and highly available upgrade systems.
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure or distributed-systems projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work combining remote work with in-person collaboration.
• Onsite collaboration and access to workplace resources where the applicable workplace policy requires it.
• Inclusive working environment focused on safety, respect, and equal employment opportunity.