R&D Distinguished Software Engineer Job Westminster area,Colorado USA,Software Development

Join the Avi Engineering team as a Distinguished Engineer to deliver Load balancing and Security solutions for the AI Era. The team has a storied history of innovation and an extensive patent portfolio. We foster a culture of intellectual curiosity turning creative ideas into tangible solutions. You’ll fit right in if you're someone who adopts a first-principles approach to problem-solving, love deep-diving into distributed systems to optimize scale and performance, and enjoy the challenge of making data flow seamlessly at a massive scale.

This on-site position is based in Palo Alto, California. You will join a global, cross-border team of talented engineers operating across India, Germany, and the USA.

Key Responsibilities

As a Distinguished Engineer, you will be architecting and building high-performance, cloud-scale load balancing and security solutions.
Architectural Leadership:
Lead the design and implementation of Load balancing and Security solutions for AI workloads, including but not limited to AI agents, LLMs, and Gateways.
Scale & Performance:
Build and optimize data pipelines capable of handling millions of records, ensuring the platform scales elastically in AI environments.
Tech Stack Orchestration:
Leverage a sophisticated stack to build durable, stateful workflows to manage complex backend processes.
Data Strategy:
Design schemas and optimize queries across a polyglot persistence layer (Open Search, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Neo4j) to provide time sensitive insights to customers.
Mentorship:
Act as a key technical leader by conducting deep-dive code reviews, driving engineering best practices, and mentoring junior engineers.

Required Skills & Experience

Professional Experience

Education:

BS/MS/PhD in Engineering Computer Science or a related technical field.

Experience :
Bachelors with 20+ years;
Masters with 18+ years;
PhD with 15+ years of related experience

Proven experience building complex highly distributed systems

Proven experience leading the end-to-end lifecycle of a product, from initial design to production deployment and maintenance.

Programming Proficiency Expert Level (GoLang & Python):
Deep mastery of Go (concurrency, profiling, and performance tuning) and Python (data manipulation and backend services).

Moderate Level (C++):
Ability to maintain and optimize performance-critical components or interface with lower-level system libraries.

Cloud-Native Architecture & API Design Microservices at Scale:
Proven experience designing and delivering production-grade microservices for high-throughput, cloud-scale environments.

Communication Protocols:
Proficiency in gRPC, Google Protocol Buffers (Protobuf), and RESTful API design, with a deep understanding of the HTTP/S stack.

Data Persistence & Search:
Hands-on experience with one or more of the following:
Open Search/Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Redis, or Neo4j (or their equivalents).

Desired

Skills & Qualifications

Networking Domain Expertise:
Strong understanding of L4–L7 networking, TCP/IP, HTTP/S protocols, and load-balancing principles.
Advanced Data Engineering:
Background in building data pipelines specifically for security and intelligence platforms (e.g., threat detection, anomaly detection, or predictive analytics).
Analytics Background:
Familiarity with time-series data, stream processing, and large-scale data visualization backend logic.

Compensation and Benefits

The annual base salary range for this position is USD To USD

As a valued member of our team, you’ll be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus and the opportunity to receive not only a competitive new hire equity grant, but also annual equity awards, connecting your success directly to the company's growth.

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