Senior Cloud Software Engineer - Infra Compute & Network

TP-Link Systems Inc. • Irvine, CA

11h • $150,000 - $200,000

About The Position

TP-Link Systems Inc. is seeking a Senior Cloud Software Engineer specializing in Infra Compute & Network. This role involves designing, building, and evolving a unified cloud-native compute and network platform for microservices. The engineer will be responsible for Kubernetes-based orchestration platforms, AWS infrastructure, and advanced traffic management solutions like service mesh. Collaboration with other engineering teams to enhance scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency is key. The position also involves driving technical evolution and best practices in cloud-native technologies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or related areas.
• Hands-on experience with AWS is required, with solid practical knowledge of cloud compute and networking services.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, including cluster architecture, workload orchestration, networking, autoscaling, and ecosystem components; Kubernetes certifications such as CKA or CKS, or equivalent proven expertise, are strongly preferred.
• Proven experience managing large-scale Istio service mesh in production environments is required.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native traffic management and networking, including gateways, load balancers, service-to-service communication, CDN, and global traffic routing.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to independently troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and network issues in distributed systems.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with other public cloud platforms such as Azure or GCP.
• Experience building compute and network platforms in multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments.
• Experience building shared infrastructure platforms or standardized platform capabilities for largescale microservice architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and continuously evolve a unified cloud-native compute and network platform that provides consistent access, runtime, and traffic management capabilities for all company microservices.
• Build, optimize, and operate Kubernetes-based compute orchestration platforms and related ecosystem components, including but not limited to HPA, VPA, Cluster Autoscaler, and CoreDNS.
• Design and implement compute and network infrastructure capabilities on AWS, including VPC, Subnet, NAT, VPN, dedicated connectivity, and integration with EC2 and serverless platforms.
• Build and enhance traffic management capabilities for large-scale microservice environments, including service mesh, gateways, load balancers, CDN, and global acceleration.
• Lead the architecture, deployment, governance, performance optimization, and reliability assurance of large-scale Istio service mesh in production environments to support service discovery, traffic routing, resilience, and secure service-to-service communication.
• Collaborate closely with application engineering, architecture, and platform teams to standardize infrastructure capabilities and improve scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Drive technical evolution and best practices in cloud-native compute and networking, and contribute to the long-term development of the company’s infrastructure platform.

Benefits

• Free snacks and drinks
• Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (partial coverage for dependents)
• Contributions to 401k funds
• Bi-annual reviews, and annual pay increases
• Health and wellness benefits, including free gym membership
• Quarterly team-building events

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior