Senior Software Engineer, Connectivity – API Transformation

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Develop and enhance Pantheon's unified API, which includes a federated GraphQL supergraph and Go subgraphs that support the Dashboard and public API.

• Define service connectivity through VPC and network architecture, service discovery strategies, and internal traffic protocols.

• Break down a substantial legacy Python monolith into well-defined services and manage the Cassandra data layer, encompassing replication, backup, and disaster recovery.

• Design and manage workflow orchestration on a platform scale utilizing GCP Workflows, Pub/Sub-driven job execution, and Go services deployed on Cloud Run.

• Establish GraphQL, gRPC, and REST standards for other engineering teams while acting as a technical resource across the organization.

• Take ownership of production systems, monitor health metrics using SLOs, troubleshoot production issues, and balance the pace of delivery with reliability.

• Engage in on-call engineering duties and participate in alert response rotations.

• Enhance engineering quality through code reviews, design feedback, and mentorship opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in building and managing production services using Go, with the flexibility to work in a polyglot codebase that includes Rust and Python.

• Proficiency in API design, including schema design, versioning, and maintaining backward compatibility; experience with GraphQL, gRPC, or REST at scale is essential.

• Relevant experience with large-scale, high-traffic distributed systems and the development of scalable, resilient services.

• Skill in extracting services from a monolith or incrementally evolving a legacy system while ensuring its continued operation.

• Working knowledge of cloud networking principles, including VPCs, DNS, load balancing, and service-to-service authentication.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and release engineering practices.

• Experience with a major cloud provider; proficiency in GCP is particularly advantageous.

• Knowledge of observability tools such as Grafana Cloud, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.

• Experience in supporting live sites and participating in on-call duties.

• Strong communication skills, enabling clear representation of contributions and ideas while remaining receptive to others' input.

• Visa sponsorship is not available at this time.

• Bonus points for experience with GraphQL Federation, federation gateways or routers, schema registries, Rust, Cassandra, stateful datastores, legacy runtime migrations, private service networking, service meshes, GCP Workflows, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, Cloud Build, AlloyDB, MySQL, Redis, Docker, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Vault, WordPress, and Drupal.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity plan within the industry.

• Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Sick Leave (PSL), and 11 Paid Company Holidays.

• Comprehensive medical coverage including extended health care, dental, and vision.

• Provision of top-tier equipment.

• Monthly allowance for wellness, reading, and access to LinkedIn Learning for ongoing development.

• Engaging events and activities, both team-oriented and company-wide, that inspire, educate, and cultivate community.

• Bonus opportunities.