Staff Software Engineer, Traffic

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Spearhead the design and development of systems that enhance network traffic and facilitate global scaling.

• Influence architectural choices for high-impact initiatives, ensuring both scalability and reliability.

• Collaborate on the creation of long-term technical roadmaps focused on network scalability, performance, and engineering efficiency.

• Establish benchmarks for engineering and operational excellence.

• Cultivate partnerships across engineering, product, and security teams.

• Lead and perform design reviews for key projects.

• Promote secure-by-default network system design and implementation in collaboration with security teams.

• Interact with customers and internal teams to gather business requirements and provide effective solutions.

• Utilize Temporal’s software to build and enhance networking infrastructure.

• Collect customer feedback to inform traffic management and networking strategy decisions.

• Stay informed about advancements in traffic management, networking, and cloud orchestration technologies.

• Mentor and guide engineers in developing reliable and scalable networking systems.

• Facilitate cross-team alignment, ensuring roadmaps and deliverables remain on schedule.

• Encourage a collaborative and growth-oriented work environment.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in leading intricate engineering projects focused on network traffic management, network optimization, and cloud orchestration.

• Outstanding collaboration and communication skills, with a proven ability to align stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams.

• Proven track record in contributing to long-term technical roadmaps and making informed system-level trade-offs.

• Minimum of 8+ years of programming experience in Go, Java, or similar languages.

• Strong proficiency in writing concurrent and distributed code.

• Significant experience in designing and developing distributed systems.

• Experience utilizing concurrency primitives and optimizing network performance.

• In-depth expertise in traffic and networking systems.

• Familiarity with related infrastructure domains.

• Practical experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Operational experience with Envoy and xDS configuration.

• Ability to optimize for cost, performance, and scalability.

• Expertise in custom controllers and familiarity with controller migration is a plus.

• Strong sense of ownership and capability to balance immediate priorities with long-term strategic objectives.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity

• Option to opt-out of interview recording; opting out will not affect candidacy.

• Equal employment opportunity and support for reasonable accommodations.