Staff Infrastructure Engineer (AI)

Location: New York City, United States; on-site, five days a week for the NY team

Salary: $160,000–$300,000 base salary, plus equity

Company

hirify.global builds an agentic AI platform that detects, monitors, and removes impersonators, fraud, AI-driven scams, and identity abuse.

What you will do

• Set the technical direction for infrastructure across databases, search and retrieval, data processing, asynchronous execution, and cloud architecture.
• Redesign search and retrieval systems for fast investigation across billions of pieces of content.
• Evolve relational database architecture through sharding, partitioning, indexing, caching, and new data-access patterns.
• Design scalable asynchronous systems covering scheduling, queues, workflows, retries, backpressure, rate limiting, and failure recovery.
• Build high-volume ingestion, streaming, batch-processing, and reprocessing infrastructure.
• Develop shared infrastructure services, APIs, libraries, and cloud foundations, while leading safe migrations and operating production systems.

Requirements

• Experience operating at staff scope, setting technical direction across team boundaries, and leading complex projects from design through adoption.
• Track record of designing and building distributed infrastructure systems used by engineers or products.
• Experience scaling production systems through major increases in data volume, traffic, or workload complexity.
• Deep knowledge of relational database architecture, including data modeling, indexing, partitioning, sharding, caching, and migrations.
• Experience with high-throughput asynchronous systems and large-scale search, retrieval, ingestion, streaming, or batch processing.
• Ability to work across cloud compute, storage, networking, isolation, resource management, and deployment architecture.

Culture & Benefits

• In-person engineering team based in a waterfront Brooklyn office, with flexibility as needed.
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees.
• Flexible PTO focused on managing energy rather than clock time.
• Annual company retreats and regular in-person events.
• Equity is included in the compensation package.