Staff Software Engineer, Traffic

Quick Facts

Staff Software Engineer (Traffic) role owning core infrastructure in the service mesh and edge tier.

Description

Own the technical vision and strategy for a domain within the service mesh and edge tier from design through rollout and long-term health. Lead technical design for complex systems, establish engineering best practices and operational excellence, and resolve ambiguous cross-cutting problems. Coach engineers through reviews and mentorship while partnering with adjacent teams to ensure reliable delivery in a high-traffic production environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision and strategy for a domain within the service mesh and edge tier from design through implementation, rollout, and long-term health
• Lead technical design of complex systems, weighing tradeoffs and foreseeing long-term implications
• Establish and encourage engineering best practices, defining what operational excellence looks like for the systems you own
• Solve ambiguous, cross-cutting problems and identify productivity improvements beyond your own work
• Orchestrate the work by sequencing dependencies, surfacing risks early, and adapting plans as requirements shift
• Partner with adjacent teams and stakeholders when your domain direction touches their systems
• Coach and provide actionable feedback to other engineers to help them drive projects independently

Requirements

• End-to-end ownership of the technical vision for a domain/system in a high-traffic production environment (design through rollout)
• Accountability for the long-term health of production systems
• Deep experience building and owning production systems code in Go (or similar), with strong fluency in systems patterns and concurrency models
• Experience operating large-scale distributed systems in production on Kubernetes, Nomad, ECS, or comparable orchestration
• Track record of establishing engineering best practices and raising the bar for the team
• Track record of coaching engineers through code review, design feedback, and mentorship
• Ability to work effectively with peers and stakeholders outside your immediate team
• Ability to ramp quickly into unfamiliar technical domains and ship meaningful work within months

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with pay-for-performance rewards approach
• Potential cash bonus and equity rewards
• Benefits package per applicable plans
• Pay is based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location

Expected base pay range (San Diego): $188,500 - $255,000