Nubank

Senior Systems Engineer - Traffic Management

Nubank
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2 days ago
Miami, FL, USA or Palo Alto, CA, USASenior

Base Salary

$124k - $156k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Deliver traffic-platform milestones from problem definition through rollout and follow-up, while managing tasks, progress, risks, and stakeholders.
  • Design and evolve reliable, scalable, secure traffic-management and service-mesh capabilities.
  • Ensure platform stability and quality through failure-aware design, testing, observability, incident response, and preventative follow-up.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, and partner teams to translate needs into technical plans and milestones.
  • Use AI tools and agents to investigate issues, write and review code, explore solutions, and automate repetitive work.
  • Create technical documentation and runbooks, share knowledge, and contribute to engineering reviews and initiatives.
  • Support teammate growth through feedback, code reviews, design discussions, pairing, and collaboration.
  • Participate in on-call and support routines and use incidents, tickets, and metrics to drive platform improvements.

Requirements

  • Experience operating large-scale, high-performance synchronous distributed systems in the cloud.
  • Hands-on experience with load balancers, reverse proxies, TLS/mTLS, routing, and metrics, logs, and traces.
  • Experience with Kubernetes-based infrastructure, Infrastructure-as-Code, deployment and routing strategies, and DNS configuration.
  • Experience using AI tools and agents in daily engineering workflows while validating outputs and maintaining quality and safety.
  • Experience leading infrastructure platform projects from design through production launch and post-rollout stabilization.
  • Experience with Istio or other service-mesh technologies such as Linkerd, Envoy-based solutions, or Finagle.
  • Production experience with AWS networking and compute primitives including ALB/NLB, security groups, VPC, Route 53, and IAM.
  • Hands-on experience with Pulumi or Terraform for cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.
  • Experience building platform capabilities, shared libraries, abstractions, SDKs, or internal tooling for other engineers.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model requiring attendance in the office at least two to three times per week.
  • Opportunity to earn equity at Nu.
  • Medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance.
  • Extended maternity and paternity leave.
  • Access to Nucleo courses, NuLanguage, and NuCare mental health and wellness assistance.
  • 401(k), health savings account, and flexible spending account plans.
  • Work-from-home allowance.
  • Relocation assistance package if applicable.
  • Role locations are Miami or Palo Alto, United States.

Tech Stack

AmbassadorAWSIstioKubernetesTerraform

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About Nubank

10,000+ employees

Nubank is a digital banking platform for consumers and small businesses in Latin America, offering a no-fee credit card, accounts, payments, lending, and investments through Nu Asset Management. It monetizes via interchange, interest, and product fees within its app-based ecosystem. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in São Paulo, it serves over 100 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia and is listed on the NYSE (ticker: NU).

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