Senior Software Engineer - Network Services / Proxy Development

Job Description:

Seniority Senior engineer, ordinarily 8 or more years of relevant software or systems experience. Mission:

Take ownership of an existing Go-based proof of concept and mature it into secure, maintainable, production-ready proxy software. Core responsibilities

• Review and rapidly understand an existing proxy codebase

• Develop traffic-management, failover, connection-draining, recovery, telemetry, and operational-control capabilities.

• Build reliable software for persistent TCP connections and stateful traffic movement. • Resolve defects and improve performance, resiliency, security, and maintainability.

• Build APIs and integration points for automation and operational tooling.

• Own unit, component, and integration testing as part of development.

• Participate in code reviews, SDLC integration, vulnerability remediation, performance certification, and production support.

• Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly to improve engineering productivity and quality. Required skills

• Strong hands-on development experience in Go or C is mandatory. Candidates without demonstrated Go or C programming experience should not be submitted.

• Linux systems programming, socket programming, concurrency, multithreading, and network services.

• TCP/IP and distributed-systems fundamentals.

• High-performance, highly available, long-running services.

• Automated testing, debugging, profiling, secure coding, and CI/CD practices. Preferred experience

• Proxy, load-balancing, service-mesh, network-appliance, or traffic-management products. • Linux kernel networking and eBPF. • Experience moving a proof of concept through enterprise SDLC and production readiness.