Staff Software Engineer, Compute (Temporal Cloud)

Location: United States (Remote); the role is remote in-country.

Salary: $212,000–$273,920 for US Tier 1, $190,800–$255,195 for US Tier 2, or $169,600–$226,840 for US Tier 3, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global builds durable execution infrastructure for demanding AI and enterprise systems through hirify.global Cloud and its open-source platform.

What you will do

• Create managed compute primitives with clear abstractions, APIs, and extension support across compute providers.
• Design self-optimizing autoscaling systems for safe and predictable worker-fleet scaling.
• Architect, build, and operate task-execution services where performance and correctness are customer-visible.
• Deliver cloud integrations involving customer-account execution, IAM boundaries, credentials, networking, quotas, and failure modes.
• Improve operability through SLOs, tracing, metrics, load and failure testing, incident reviews, and hardening.
• Lead technical direction through design documents, reviews, mentorship, and cross-team collaboration.

Requirements

• Significant experience building distributed systems or multi-tenant platform services, including design, implementation, and production operations.
• Strong fundamentals in concurrency, performance, reliability, and failure-mode analysis.
• A record of shipping platform primitives used by engineers or customers, including APIs, control planes, or data planes.
• Experience owning outcomes through SLOs, incident response, and continuous improvement of on-call quality.
• Excellent written communication and clear technical tradeoff analysis.

Nice to have

• Experience building cloud infrastructure compute platforms.
• Experience with IAM and security boundaries for cross-account execution models.
• Experience building Kubernetes controllers or CRDs, or operating heterogeneous worker fleets.
• Go experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work model; most roles are remote in-country, while some are remote within a region and a few have an in-office hub.
• Occasional travel may be required for onboarding and team gatherings; some teams participate in an on-call rotation.
• Competitive benefits, equity, flexible time off, and support for learning, wellness, and a home office.
• Equal-opportunity employer with reasonable accommodation available for individuals with disabilities.

Hiring process

• Complete the quick questions included in the application.