Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

What you'll do

• Architect and develop scalable, elastic distributed systems to support high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads.
• Optimize code and data paths for large-scale retrieval, storage, and processing using data plane platforms.
• Design fault-tolerant systems using redundancy, replication, failover, and rate-limiting to meet SLOs.
• Establish KPIs and build proactive telemetry, dashboards, and alerting mechanisms to monitor system health.
• Design complex validation scenarios, including fault injection and brownouts, to ensure system correctness and durability.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues while mentoring peers on operational readiness and incident response.
• Implement security controls, encryption, and access management while maintaining compliance documentation.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation for patching, updates, and rollbacks within change-management plans.

What we're looking for

• Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
• 6+ years of relevant engineering, architecture, or development/operational experience.
• Strong experience working on data plane architectures in networking devices.
• Strong experience with high-concurrency systems.
• Experience designing, developing, and optimizing high-performance network solutions using DPDK and C/C++.
• Working experience with Linux OSes/kernels, device drivers, performance testing tools, and distributed debugging tools.
• Expert knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts and technologies.
• Significant work experience in startups or fast-paced enterprise technology development environments.