Staff Cloud Software Engineer - Edge, CDN & WAF

Intuit

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Diego, CA
Salary
$188,500–$255,000 / yr
Posted
30 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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About Intuit

Intuit is a financial software company known for products like TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint, and Credit Karma, helping consumers and small businesses manage their finances and taxes. Industry: Financial Software & Technology

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TL;DR · Staff Cloud Software Engineer - Edge, CDN & WAF

Staff Cloud Software Engineer – Edge, CDN & WAF joins the Cloud Engineering & Operations team to protect and accelerate public-facing traffic. This role involves building a "paved road" for automated Akamai onboarding, designing self-service platforms, and engineering APIs and UIs for edge, DNS, and certificate workflows. The engineer will tune security policies for WAF, bot management, and rate control while managing the full packet path across CDN origin, DNS resolution, and TLS certificates. Key technologies include Akamai Kona, AWS WAFv2, Python, Golang, React, Java, and Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and CloudFormation. The role requires deep expertise in TCP/IP, HTTP/2, and BGP, alongside proficiency in orchestrating AI agents to automate operations. The position addresses the critical challenge of maintaining high availability for network services while balancing security with low false-positive risks across complex cloud environments.

What you'll do

  • Build a "paved road" to automate the onboarding of public endpoints to Akamai with optimized edge configurations.
  • Engineer and tune security policies for WAF, bot management, and rate control across Akamai and AWS platforms.
  • Design and support self-service applications, APIs, and UIs for edge, DNS, and certificate workflows.
  • Manage the full lifecycle of DNS and SSL/TLS certificates including mTLS and various provider integrations.
  • Troubleshoot the full packet path to diagnose connectivity issues across edge, cloud networks, and DNS resolution.
  • Automate compliance and cost reporting while performing proactive performance tuning of Cloud Platform services.
  • Develop agentic workflows and self-service tooling to encode team knowledge into reusable automated patterns.
  • Provide 24/7 incident response for critical edge and platform services during migration and cutover windows.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent work-related experience.
  • Deep hands-on expertise with Akamai products including Kona, Bot Manager, SiteShield, and PAPI APIs.
  • Strong networking foundation including TCP/IP, HTTP/2, DNS, SSL/TLS, mTLS, BGP, and VPN.
  • Proficiency in software engineering and scripting using Python, Golang, React, and Java.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform) and GitOps deployment automation.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS services such as API Gateway, CloudFront, ACM, Lambda, and WAFv2.
  • Fluency in AI agent development and orchestration to build self-service tooling and review AI-generated code.
  • Experience operating production support/on-call surfaces with formal change management and incident RCA.

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