Software Engineer (Edge - Networking & Fleet) - Remote
Core
Design and operate the control plane and data plane for a residential device fleet (Edge) that powers web data extraction, handling scheduling, networking, and reliability for tens of millions of daily requests.
Role type
Senior IC distributed systems engineer (networking & fleet management)
Builds
Fleet Manager control plane, scalable fetch scheduler, proxy gateway, and device orchestration systems
Domain
Web data extraction, distributed systems, custom networking, residential proxy infrastructure
Required skills
Rust (tokio, tonic), distributed systems design, deep TCP/TLS/HTTP networking, proxy gateway operations, cross-platform development (Windows/Linux/Android), SLO definition, observability
Preferred skills
Mobile/desktop Rust, fleet/device management, anti-bot/fingerprinting, web scraping, open source contributions
Technologies
Rust, C++, Python, Java, gRPC, protobuf, mTLS, HTTP CONNECT, Kubernetes, GCP, OCI, Terraform, Valkey, BigQuery, Confluent Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry
Responsibilities
Scale the data plane to 50–100M requests/day, build the Fleet Manager control plane, operate the CONNECT proxy gateway, engineer networking protocols over unreliable links, define SLOs and reliability metrics, lead incident post-mortems
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
