Senior Systems Software Engineer, Tegra UEFI Firmware
NVIDIA
Linux
Software Engineer, Service Mesh
Salesforce
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $184,000 - $334,600 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AnsibleAWSChefCloudDistributed SystemsDNSGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesLinuxMicroservicesPuppetPythonRubyTCP/IPTerraformUnix
About the role
- Lead the design and development of scalable, reliable, and secure service mesh infrastructure across the platform
- Drive architectural decisions and provide technical leadership for service discovery, observability, security (mTLS, policy enforcement), and traffic management (circuit breaking, graceful failovers, blue/green routing)
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Compute, Webapp infrastructure, Security, and Monitoring teams to integrate service mesh capabilities
- Contribute to and/or extend open-source projects such as Istio, Linkerd, or Envoy
- Mentor and guide engineers across teams, fostering knowledge sharing
- Continuously evaluate emerging technologies in the service mesh and cloud-native space
- Take ownership of critical technical issues to maintain optimal service mesh operation and meet/exceed performance, reliability, and SLO targets
- Architect, build, and maintain systems behind Ingress load balancing, traffic management, DNS, CDN, and custom software load balancers
- Improve developer experience by providing features such as blue-green deployments out of the box
Requirements
- Must have lawful permanent residency in the U.S.
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering with focus on distributed systems, cloud-native applications, and microservices
- Deep understanding of service mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd, or other Envoy-based service meshes
- Hands-on experience with cloud providers such as GCP or AWS
- Expertise in container orchestration using Kubernetes
- Troubleshooting experience in distributed Linux systems environments
- Proven track record building tools, automation, or services using Go, Ruby, Python, C/C++
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Experience configuring and operating service mesh at production scale (stability, scalability, performance limits)
- Experience with TCP/IP, DNS, and network-related protocols
- Experience with Linux/Unix on high-volume systems at scale
- Experience running deployment automation/configuration management systems at scale (Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation or others)
- Certifications in Istio, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, and/or other technologies (preferred)
- Experience with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis, and distributed systems
- A BS, MS, or Ph.D. in engineering or related technical field (or equivalent work experience)
Benefits
- time off programs
- medical, dental, vision
- mental health support
- paid parental leave
- life and disability insurance
- 401(k)
- employee stock purchasing program
- incentive compensation and equity (for certain roles)
- Tech-Flexible / flexible work arrangements
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
service meshdistributed systemscloud-native applicationsmicroservicesKubernetesGoRubyPythonC/C++TCP/IP
Soft skills
interpersonal skillscommunication skillstechnical leadershipmentoringcollaboration
Certifications
IstioKubernetesGoogle Cloud
