2 months ago
Base Salary
$177k - $365k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and deploy Envoy-based service mesh features for service discovery, traffic shaping, and observability.
- Lead organization-wide adoption of service identity and mTLS for secure service-to-service communication.
- Design traffic optimization primitives such as locality-aware routing to reduce high-volume data transfer costs.
- Maintain and modernize service framework libraries in Java, Python, and C++.
- Collaborate with service owners to drive platform adoption and refine infrastructure requirements.
- Partner with infrastructure teams on multi-region and multi-cloud service communication strategies.
- Use AI to accelerate engineering analysis and iteration while verifying correctness and quality.
- Participate in the on-call rotation, incident response, post-mortems, and reliability improvements.
Requirements
- 6+ years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience in distributed systems or RPC framework development.
- Deep hands-on expertise with service mesh technologies such as Envoy or Istio, including L7 proxying.
- Proficiency in Java, Python, and C++, with experience building internal libraries or developer tools.
- Strong understanding of service security, mTLS adoption, and identity management through SPIFFE/SPIRE.
- Experience designing highly available and efficient distributed systems at massive scale.
- Experience driving adoption of complex platform capabilities across diverse cross-functional engineering teams.
- Experience using AI to accelerate engineering workflows while validating accuracy and quality.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Remote work from anywhere in the country with in-office collaboration required 1-2 times every 6 months.
- No relocation assistance is provided.
- Position is eligible for equity.
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