Senior Systems Engineer - Traffic Management
Core
Drive the reliability, scalability, and security of Nubank's service mesh and traffic management platform, ensuring customer-facing and internal services remain reachable and secure across all regions.
Role type
Senior Systems Engineer (Traffic Management & Service Mesh)
Builds
Service mesh infrastructure, traffic routing policies, and observability tools for product teams
Domain
Fintech / Cloud Infrastructure / Distributed Systems (via careerplan.io/jobs/602d4281-b4fc-41af-ac6f-89bc5d2a015a-senior-systems-engineer-traffic-management-at-nubank)
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Kubernetes, Istio/Linkerd/Envoy, AWS networking (ALB/NLB, VPC, Route 53), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Pulumi), distributed systems debugging, AI tooling for engineering workflows
Preferred skills
Experience building platform capabilities or shared libraries, mentoring engineers, designing with failure in mind
Technologies
Kubernetes, Istio, Linkerd, Envoy, Finagle, AWS (ALB, NLB, VPC, Route 53, IAM), Terraform, Pulumi, AI agents
Responsibilities
Deliver end-to-end milestones on the traffic platform from problem definition to rollout; analyze complex problems and propose pragmatic solutions balancing reliability and performance; design with failure in mind and react quickly to incidents; collaborate with product and partner teams to align on technical plans; use AI and agents to investigate issues, write code, and automate work; create and maintain technical documentation and runbooks; participate in on-call routines and drive medium-term improvements
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC