Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

What you'll do

• Architect and develop scalable, elastic distributed systems using distributed state management tools.
• Optimize code and data paths for high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads and large-scale data processing.
• Design fault-tolerant systems featuring redundancy, replication, failover, and rate-limiting to handle network unreliability.
• Establish KPIs and build custom dashboards and alerting mechanisms to monitor system health.
• Create complex validation scenarios including fault injection and brownouts to ensure system correctness.
• Proactively diagnose, debug, and resolve production issues while mentoring peers in incident response.
• Implement robust security controls, encryption, and access management for multi-tenant environments.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation scripts to manage cloud infrastructure and deployment cycles.

What we're looking for

• Must have 6+ years of relevant engineering, architecture, or development/operational experience.
• Strong experience working on data plane architectures in networking devices (preferred).
• Strong experience with high-concurrency systems (preferred).
• Experience designing, developing, and optimizing high performance network solutions using DPDK, C/C++ (preferred).
• Working experience with Linux OSes/kernels, device drivers, performance testing tools, and distributed debugging tools (preferred).
• Expert knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts and technologies (preferred).
• Significant work experience in startups or fast-paced enterprise technology development environments (preferred).
• Ability to communicate effectively and work well within geographically distributed teams (preferred).