Senior Software Engineer
Mercado Libre22 hours ago
Bogotá, ColombiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and implement service-mesh capabilities for service connectivity, security, and observability.
- Evolve platform components on AWS and Kubernetes with emphasis on availability, scalability, and developer experience.
- Lead end-to-end technical initiatives covering architecture, technical proposals, implementation, testing, progressive deployment, observability, and post-production follow-up.
- Investigate and resolve production incidents involving connectivity, latency, availability, configuration, and distributed traffic.
- Collaborate with development, site reliability engineering, and platform teams on secure, scalable, operable integrations.
- Participate in technical on-call rotations, incident-management rooms, and postmortems, turning lessons into systemic improvements.
Requirements
- Solid experience developing backend services with Java or Go, designing REST APIs, and building distributed systems.
- Practical infrastructure experience with AWS and Kubernetes, including deployments, networking, troubleshooting, workload configuration, and production operations.
- Experience using Git and diagnosing failures in development pipelines and continuous integration and deployment processes.
- Ability to design modular distributed solutions, document technical decisions through requests for comments, and lead initiatives end to end while guiding other engineers.
- Knowledge or practical experience with service meshes using Istio or Envoy, traffic policies, gateways, and mTLS security is especially valued.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Worksite located in Bogotá, Colombia.
About Mercado Libre
Mercado Libre builds an e-commerce marketplace and fintech infrastructure for consumers and merchants across Latin America. It monetizes through marketplace transaction fees, payment processing (Mercado Pago), logistics and fulfillment (Mercado Envíos), advertising, and credit products. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, it operates in 18 countries and is publicly traded on Nasdaq under the ticker MELI.