- Job type
- Full-time
- Work mode
- On-site
- Level
- Staff
- Department
- Software Development
- Experience
- 9+ years experience
- Posted
- Sep 1, 2026
About the role
Role
We are looking to add a Staff Software Engineer, Traffic to expand our high-impact Platform team. You’ll design and build software-defined networking capabilities that enable secure, reliable, and scalable communication across Peregrine.
You’ll work across cloud and Kubernetes networking, service-to-service communication, traffic management, routing, and observability—building the control planes, services, and automation that make complex networking capabilities reliable and easy to operate at scale.
About you
- Design and build systems that provision, manage, and scale network connectivity across customer, cloud, and Kubernetes environments
- Build platform capabilities for service communication, routing, traffic management, segmentation, and observability
- Extend and improve APIs and services that make networking capabilities reliable and self-service
- Design systems for safe configuration, policy enforcement, traffic rollout, and failure recovery
- Own and improve the reliability, scalability, and observability of networking and traffic management systems
- Lead debugging of complex connectivity and traffic issues across application, Kubernetes, cloud, and network boundaries
- Drive architectural direction and networking standards while collaborating across Infrastructure, Security, and product engineering teams
What we’re looking for
- 9+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, or network engineering roles, with a focus on building and operating systems at scale
- Strong programming skills (e.g., Python, Go, or similar) with experience building production systems or services
- Deep understanding of networking fundamentals (e.g., TCP/IP, routing, DNS, load balancing, NAT, VPNs)
- Experience with cloud and Kubernetes networking, including concepts such as VPCs, routing, network policy, and service connectivity
- Experience building or operating distributed systems or networking infrastructure (e.g., control planes, traffic management, gateways or proxies, automation systems)
- Strong debugging skills and ability to troubleshoot across application, system, and network boundaries
- Ability to drive technical direction and make architectural decisions across teams
- Based in and around one of our offices in San Francisco and excited to work in-office.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.