Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering
About The Position
As a Senior Software Engineer within the Infrastructure team, you are a key person in managing and scaling the systems and services that power our streaming platform with a focus on our edge services and networking technologies. Your expertise enables you to take on complex challenges independently and create scalable solutions that meet our customers' needs. You will work with other members of Infrastructure Engineering and delivery teams to lead projects, driving them forward to completion and ensuring that the platform processes and best practices are being followed. In close collaboration with other engineers, you will be responsible for ensuring our traffic management and cloud networking architecture are secure, fast, and reliable. You are expected to take initiatives to improve what we do overall, introduce new technologies and processes when it is needed and share knowledge across teams. You will report to the Senior Manager, Infrastructure Engineering.
Requirements
- At least a Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology, information systems, or similar.
- 8+ years of experience working in production-level environments with at least 5 years directly engineering edge infrastructure and networks as a DevOps/SRE.
- Proficient in AWS cloud technologies, coupled with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Pulumi and Terraform.
- Proven experience managing global traffic via Cloudflare or other traffic manager, including DNS, CDN, and intelligent load balancing to optimize application performance.
- Demonstrated ability to secure cloud-native environments using Cloudflare’s suite of tools, specially WAF, DDos mitigation, and Zero Trust access polices.
- Able to proactively analyze Cloudflare traffic patterns and metrics to rapidly troubleshoot global delivery failures, caching conflicts, and origin-to-edge connectivity bottlenecks.
- Proven experience architecting and automating secure, scalable cloud networks, including VPCs, subnets and routing.
- Demonstrated ability to implement robust load balancing, DNS strategies, and granular access controls to ensure secure, performant cloud-native communication.
- Able to investigate and resolve complex cloud connectivity issues, leveraging logs and metrics to remediate latency, routing anomalies, and packet loss in high-traffic environments.
- Experience in GitOps practices and CI/CD.
- Experience managing Linux based infrastructure.
- Experience with CDN and caching technologies including AWS CloudFront.
- Experience working with and guiding Software Engineers in production best practices, sharing knowledge across teams and teammates.
- Experience in at least two or more programming languages.
- Able to accommodate periodic off-hour meetings with the international team members.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of streaming video delivery, video encoding workflows, video origin architecture, and issues of scale for video delivery.
- Proficiency in TypeScript.
- Familiarity with big data and payments domain.
- Understand security concepts such as cryptography, authentication, authorization, and security protocols.
- Familiarity with Datadog.
- Familiarity with GitHub Actions.
Responsibilities
- Managing and scaling systems and services that power the streaming platform, with a focus on edge services and networking technologies.
- Taking on complex challenges independently and creating scalable solutions.
- Leading projects with other members of Infrastructure Engineering and delivery teams.
- Ensuring platform processes and best practices are followed.
- Ensuring traffic management and cloud networking architecture are secure, fast, and reliable.
- Taking initiatives to improve overall processes and introduce new technologies.
- Sharing knowledge across teams.
- Participating in an on-call and developer support rotations.
Benefits
- Great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.
- Flexible time off policies.
- Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance.
- Health Saving Account HSA program.
- Health care and dependent care FSA.
- 401(k) plan, with employer match.
- Employer paid commuter benefit.
- Support program for new parents.
- Pet insurance.
- Some offices are pet friendly.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
