Systems Development Engineer

Location: Hybrid, based out of the Seattle office

Salary: $190K–$230K annually

Company

hirify.global develops Flyte, an open-source data and AI orchestration platform for production workloads at scale.

What you will do

• Investigate and resolve customer-impacting production issues across cloud infrastructure, workflow execution, access control, storage, networking, deployment systems, and observability.
• Convert recurring customer issues into automation, product improvements, runbooks, tests, and design changes.
• Build internal tools and diagnostics that improve issue detection, investigation, and resolution.
• Improve logs, metrics, dashboards, alerts, and customer-visible debugging information.
• Participate in system design and development, promoting operationally reliable and easier-to-debug systems.
• Define production-readiness, alert-quality, runbook, observability, regression-prevention, and code-quality practices while reducing on-call load and time to resolution.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, Java, or a similar language.
• Experience debugging production systems across multiple layers of the stack.
• Practical knowledge of Kubernetes, Linux, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, networking, storage, and IAM.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, deployment systems, CI/CD, observability, and operational automation.
• Ability to turn ambiguous customer symptoms into technical diagnoses and durable remediation.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including root-cause analyses, runbooks, technical recommendations, and design feedback.

Nice to have

• Experience operating customer-facing SaaS, cloud infrastructure, self-hosted or on-premises deployments, or workflow orchestration systems.
• Experience with batch workloads, autoscaling, capacity management, identity and access systems, storage systems, or platform observability.
• Experience improving on-call health, reducing ticket volume, or building production diagnostics.
• Experience working across support, customer success, product, and engineering teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Full engineering-team support for on-call responsibilities.
• Medical coverage with 100% of employee premiums and 90% of dependent premiums paid.
• Dental and vision coverage with 90% of premiums paid for employees and dependents.
• Meaningful equity options, unlimited time off, and 12 company holidays.
• 401(k) matching, paid parental leave, flexible scheduling, and onsite meals and snacks for office employees.