Senior Software Engineer, Traffic Platform Seattle Regular

Senior Software Engineer, Traffic Platform

Location:

Seattle

Team:
Technology

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Code: A154620

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Responsibilities

• Design and develop features of traffic software (DNS Server, L4 and L7 Proxy, Web Caching, and FaaS Runtime), integrate based on our traffic platform to process terabyte-scale data in real-time

• Build data pipeline and develop telemetry systems to support data driven traffic control

• Develop API acceleration and other networking services that run on top of our multi-cloud based traffic platform

• Problem solving and performance tuning for online traffic

• Research new technologies for more efficient and scalable traffic processing

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3+ years experience in developing network systems in Rust, C, C++, and/or Go, strong developing skills in Linux environment.

• Master’s degree (or Bachelor's degree with addtional 2+ years of experience) in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or related majors.

• Familiarity with network protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPs, and DNS.

• Familiarity with Microservice architecture.

• Familiarity with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes

• Strong understanding of software deployment fundamentals and automation.

• Good understanding of concepts in operating system, remote process communication, high availability etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in building large scale network services on cloud ( AWS, GCP, OCI ).

• Experience in designing and developing high performance network loadbalancer products.

• Experience in developing proxy software such as Nginx and Envoy is a big plus.

• Experience in System Programming using low level system calls such as epoll, io-uring, etc., is a big plus.

• Experience in developing Web Caching software such as Apache Traffic Server and Varnish, etc.

• Experience in Edge Computing and FaaS Runtime development.

• Experience in building distributed or cloud service based management system

• Proficiency in networking newer protocols such as HTTP2, HTTP3/QUIC, TLS
1.3, etc.

Job Information

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $$annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

• Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

• Exercising sound judgment.

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