Staff Software Engineer, Service Communications

What you'll do

• Architect and deploy advanced service mesh features including service discovery, traffic shaping, and deep observability using Envoy proxy.
• Lead the organization-wide adoption of service identity and mTLS to meet critical security requirements for service-to-service paths.
• Design traffic optimization primitives like locality-aware routing to reduce data transfer costs for high-volume traffic.
• Maintain and modernize multi-language service framework libraries in Java, Python, and C++ to improve developer experience.
• Partner with infrastructure peers on multi-region and multi-cloud strategies using robust service communication primitives.
• Utilize AI tools to accelerate engineering analysis and iteration while ensuring technical accuracy and quality.
• Participate in the oncall rotation to manage incident response, perform post-mortems, and drive reliability improvements.

What we're looking for

• Candidates must have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Applicants must be based in the United States.
• Candidates must have 6+ years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience in distributed systems or RPC framework development.
• Candidates must possess deep technical expertise in service mesh technologies like Envoy or Istio and L7 proxying.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages, specifically Java, Python, and C++, is required.
• Experience building internal libraries or developer tools is required.
• Candidates must have a strong understanding of service security, including mTLS and identity management via SPIFFE/SPIRE.
• Demonstrated experience using AI to accelerate engineering workflows while ensuring accuracy and quality is required.