Staff Data Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote-first within the United States

Salary: $186,500–$255,000 USD annually, depending on geographic pay zone, experience, qualifications, and skills. Eligible for a company-wide bonus program.

Company

hirify.global is an agentic web marketing platform that helps modern marketing teams build, manage, and optimize high-performing web experiences.

What you will do

• Design data solutions for batch, streaming, and real-time workloads.
• Build and operate reliable data pipelines using Spark, Kafka, Iceberg, and Airflow/MWAA.
• Evolve the data lake and data platform across ingestion, processing, storage, and serving.
• Scale cloud data infrastructure including Kafka, Airflow, Druid, and EMR on EKS with strong reliability and observability.
• Improve data quality, event instrumentation, schema governance, privacy, retention, deletion, and data residency.
• Build AI agent harnesses that encode data engineering standards, pipeline patterns, and quality gates into development workflows; troubleshoot production issues and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience building and operating production data pipelines and platforms.
• Strong experience with Spark and distributed data processing.
• Experience designing batch, real-time, and streaming solutions with Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming, and CDC.
• Experience with data quality, observability, reliability, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Strong programming and SQL skills, plus experience leading complex data engineering initiatives end-to-end.

Nice to have

• Experience with data governance and privacy, including PII management, retention, deletion, data residency, GDPR, or CCPA.
• Experience with event schemas, validation, schema evolution, and instrumentation governance.
• Experience applying AI and emerging technologies to development workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity through RSUs for permanent employees.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for full-time employees and dependents, with most premiums covered.
• Paid parental leave, flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program.
• Mental health resources, therapy, coaching, and localized monthly work and wellness stipends.
• U.S. 401(k) with 100% employer matching up to $6,000 per year and eligibility for an annual bonus program.