Senior Software Engineer, Service Discovery and Communication Location:Anywhere

Palo Alto, CA

100,000 - 200,000

Qualifications

Proven understanding of Networking and Microservice Architecture and a familiarity with writing highly concurrent systems with load balancing techniques
Have a strong technical grasp and have excellent judgment on task prioritizations
You are able to tackle sophisticated engineering problems that deliver results which help the team to achieve its objectives
You have a history of creating and applying new processes and tooling to increase engineering efficiency
Passion in mentoring junior engineers and improving the engineering craftsmanship!
Intimate familiarity of Python/Django or Go and writing low latency, large scale distributed systems
Experience working on Kubernetes, AWS, and service discovery or service mesh type systems
Python/Django, Go as the main languages and frameworks of choice
Experience with C++ is a bonus as we construct our global edge

Responsibilities

We build and deploy the fundamental systems that enable this real-time, inter-service communication all while being highly-scaleable, robust and reliable!
This engineer will have true ownership, continuing to build the innovation to continue to delight our users
Design large scale systems within a team, making the right tradeoffs for risk and long-term maintainability
Proactively identify and drive optimizations and improvements to the infrastructure and systems
Mentor and train junior engineers in the team
Contribute to open source projects

Benefits

Envoy for load balancing and global routing
CO Residents: In Colorado, the base pay for this position ranges from $146000 - $194000
NYC Residents: In NYC, the base pay for this position ranges from $187000 - $220000
This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and participation in companies equity plan