Senior Systems Engineer - Traffic Management
Core
Design, build, and maintain large-scale distributed traffic management infrastructure, ensuring reliability, performance, and security across the platform.
Role type
Senior Systems Engineer (Infrastructure/Platform)
Builds
High-performance synchronous distributed systems, service mesh configurations, and cloud networking primitives
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Traffic Management
Required skills
Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code (Pulumi/Terraform), Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd/Envoy), AWS Networking (ALB/NLB/VPC/Route 53), Load Balancing, TLS/mTLS, Observability (metrics/logs/traces), Incident Response, Technical Documentation
Preferred skills
AI tools and agents for engineering workflows, SDK development, Internal tooling creation
Technologies
Kubernetes, Pulumi, Terraform, Istio, Linkerd, Envoy, Finagle, AWS, ALB, NLB, VPC, Route 53, IAM
Responsibilities
Own complex infrastructure problems and propose solutions balancing reliability, performance, security, and effort; Design for failure, implement testing and observability, respond to incidents, and drive preventative follow-up work; Collaborate with engineering, product, and partner teams to create technical plans and milestones; Use and help adopt AI tools and agents for investigation, coding, solution exploration, and automation; Create technical documentation and runbooks and share knowledge through reviews and technical sessions; Support engineer growth through code reviews, design discussions, pairing, and collaboration; Participate in support and on-call routines and use incidents, tickets, and metrics to improve the platform
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
