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Senior Software Engineer - Application Traffic team

San Francisco, California💼 Full-time💰 $166,000–$166,000🗓 2026-04-09 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and build systems powering service-to-service communication across thousands of clusters in a multi-cloud environment, creating abstractions for connectivity, discovery, and reliability.

Role type

Senior IC distributed systems engineer (networking/infrastructure)

Builds

Global ingress control plane, scalable service discovery and load balancing mechanisms, intelligent rate limiting and admission control systems.

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, networking

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Designing large-scale distributed systems, proficiency in Java/Scala/Go/C++, service-oriented architectures, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), container orchestration (Kubernetes/Docker), shipping mission-critical infrastructure

Preferred skills

Service discovery, DNS, load balancing, Envoy, networking systems

Technologies

Java, Scala, Go, C++, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Envoy

Responsibilities

Build the control plane for Databricks' global ingress layer enabling API gateway programming; Design scalable mechanisms for service discovery and load balancing; Build intelligent rate limiting and admission control systems to protect critical services under high load.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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