Senior Software Engineer

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Join Intuit’s PDX group as a Senior Staff Software Engineer developing the Service Mesh for the Intuit Kubernetes Service. The Service Mesh is a cutting‑edge technology built on the open source Istio project, coupled with Intuit’s Kubernetes Service, revolutionizing service-to-service communication for hundreds of services in Intuit’s ecosystem. The team is looking to reinvent service-to-service communication at scale, innovate, and contribute back into open source.

We are looking for team members who love new challenges, crave cracking tough problems, and thrive in cross‑functional collaboration. If you’re looking to join a fast‑paced, innovative, and incredibly fun team with a passion for continuously raising the operational excellence bar of our platforms, we encourage you to apply.

• Develop, maintain, and innovate large‑scale, developer‑facing platforms.
• Continuously raise the operational excellence bar of Service Mesh and related platforms.
• Familiarize with security best practices.
• Understand development challenges inherent with adoption of API Gateway or Service Mesh platforms in large‑scale organizations.
• Good understanding of networking fundamentals.
• Experience with network proxies like nginx, Envoy, Rust.
• Good understanding of L4/L7 load balancers.
• Experience working with Kubernetes/Docker.
• Experience building platforms for microservices ecosystems.
• Experience with networking in Kubernetes.
• Experience working with Istio or any Service Mesh.
• Experience with Envoy and Envoy WASM filters.
• Experience maintaining/contributing to open‑source projects.
• Always be learning: experience with open‑source technologies and prototyping or researching upcoming tech solutions.

• 7+ years of hands‑on software development experience.
• Experience developing scalable consumer‑facing SaaS software using modern technologies including Istio, Go, Kubernetes, and RESTful web services.
• Experience leveraging, contributing to, and leading open‑source community projects.
• Strategic and analytical thinker who is hypothesis‑driven and uses data, judgment, and pattern recognition for learning and moving quickly.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills; demonstrated ability to explain complex issues to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent work‑related experience.

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay-for-performance rewards approach. This position is eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards, and benefits in accordance with our applicable plans and programs. Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing pay equity for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.
Bay Area, California: $214,000 – $289,500
Southern California: $201,000 – $272,000

Mid–Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology

Software Development

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