Senior Software Development Engineer – Edge Infrastructure

Ole & Lena Digital

Senior Software Development Engineer managing edge infrastructure and compliance systems for customers. Leading technical initiatives and ensuring high-quality delivery of mission-critical systems across global deployments.

Posted 6/11/2026full-timeChicago • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ApacheLinuxNGINXPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support a critical customer engagement focused on edge infrastructure, consent and privacy compliance, and global system reliability.
Take a mission-critical, globally-deployed system end to end — setting its technical direction, hardening its quality, and steering high-risk compliance rollouts with minimal oversight.
Work closely with the program manager and customer stakeholders to ensure project success from initial definition through final delivery.
Maintain full technical ownership of the customer’s cookie and consent management plugin, including its deployment, performance, and stability across all consuming properties.
Formalize and drive the technical roadmap and operational excellence for the system, leading the design and architecture of medium-to-large components and driving cross-team standardization.
Serve as the technical lead for high-risk, cross-functional consent and compliance rollouts that directly impact advertising revenue and legal requirements, and design and implement proactive risk-mitigation strategies such as bucketed or percentage-based rollout controls.
Lead strategic initiatives such as third-party CDN proofs of concept (for example, Cloudflare and Fastly WASM-based solutions) to establish repeatable, portable architectural patterns for the customer’s edge organization in support of long-term digital transformation and cost optimization.
Establish system guardrails and improve core system quality, including comprehensive automated test coverage and platform-agnostic testing frameworks to eliminate critical regressions and ensure service stability.
Translate complex technical and legal requirements across privacy, legal, and advertising teams, and provide mentorship and guidance to peers and dependent teams.
Translate ambiguous, high-level business and compliance needs into reliable, globally-deployed system solutions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of professional software development at a senior level.
Production, hands-on C and C++ (plus Python and WASM toolchain exposure).
Direct work on high-performance HTTP proxies (Apache Traffic Server, Nginx) or CDNs , with real HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 depth.
Linux kernel / systems-level troubleshooting and crash analysis.
Ownership of a mission-critical, globally-deployed system , including automated test suites and CI/CD quality gates.
Proven software development experience performing at or beyond a Senior (IC4) level, typically 8+ years of professional experience.
Strong, hands-on experience with C, C++, Python, and WASM toolchains.
Strong working knowledge of HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2, including headers, cookies, caching, and connection handling in the context of edge proxies.
Direct experience with high-performance HTTP proxies (for example, Apache Traffic Server / ATS or Nginx) or Content Delivery Networks (CDNs).
Solid understanding of the Linux kernel, networking, and systems-level troubleshooting.
Good understanding of crash analysis.
Practical experience building comprehensive automated test suites and integrating quality gates into CI/CD pipelines for mission-critical systems.
Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and complex problem-solving in high-risk production environments.
Strong awareness of system dependencies and business impact, with experience managing complexity and tradeoffs.
Excellent cross-functional communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to translate complex technical and legal requirements to non-technical audiences.
Hands-on experience with third-party CDN platforms such as Cloudflare or Fastly, including WASM-based edge solutions.
Familiarity with consent and privacy management platforms (for example, Didomi) and global privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA.
Experience designing bucketed or percentage-based rollout controls for safe, gradual global deployments.
Prior experience mentoring peers and guiding dependent engineering teams.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

CC++PythonWASMHTTP/1.1HTTP/2Linux kernelautomated test suitesCI/CDcrash analysis

Soft Skills

cross-functional communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingmentorshipguidancetechnical leadershiprisk mitigationproject managementstakeholder engagementtranslating technical requirements