In this Role:

Our team helps organizations automate network configurations, discover services, and enable secure connectivity across any cloud. Our customers are operators, infrastructure engineers, and software developers that encounter novel performance, security, scaling, and usability challenges that we help them solve.  Some examples of the functionality you’ll be working on will include proxy integrations, Envoy’s xDS APIs, certificate management for mutual TLS connectivity, and security through service-oriented patterns. You’ll actively contribute to the service mesh ecosystem, follow new developments in emerging technology, look for opportunities to differentiate our product from the competition, and rethink product architecture to meet new global scale and organizational demands.

You can expect to:

• Program mostly in Go, learning from and contributing to a team committed to continually improving their skills
• Architect and build distributed systems for service connectivity across heterogeneous environments (Kubernetes, VMs, bare metal or multi-cloud deployments)
• Synthesize requirements underlying feature requests, recommend technical and business approaches, and facilitate engineering efforts to meet timelines
• Configure and automate the application network infrastructure, so customers have up-to-the-minute details and insight into running software
• Provide architecture patterns and system engineering to enable secure service to service communication
• Engage in discussions, meeting support, and briefings with key customer stakeholders

You are a good fit if you can:

• Bring imagination and energy to your job every day.
• Show empathy for the people operating, learning, teaching and supporting software you write, and consider their experience when making design decisions and performance, security or complexity tradeoffs.
• Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems.
• Collaborate with peer engineers in discussions around performance, user experience, security, and other constraints when designing complex systems.
• Handle multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Have a willingness to learn and support additional platform features and applications, as necessary.
• Code in Go (preferable), Python, or Java
• Possess knowledge of:
  • API and RESTful web services development experience, JSON, XML, YAML
  • Shell scripting (bash)
  • CI/CD pipeline design
  • Distributed systems and cloud architectures
• Other skills that are important:
  • Experience with service mesh architecture
  • Application protocols like gRPC, Kafka, HTTP/2, and NATS
  • Experience with at least one of the following configuration management tools:
    • Salt, Chef, Puppet, or Ansible 

What is our hiring process like?

The below serves as a basic outline; we may choose to add or remove steps based on the information that we gather during the process.

• Introductory call with someone from our team.
• First interview with an engineering mentor
• Interview with additional team members
• If applicable, a final conversation with the Engineering Manager for the team you would be joining
• Offer

Collaboration and communication are critical aspects of how we work, a cover letter is a great way to provide a sample of how you communicate. In your cover letter, please describe why you’re interested in working with us, and what draws you to this role in particular. Specifics of your past experience that are relevant to this role are great to include, too.

We embrace diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe the more inclusive we are, the better our company will be.

Send us your resume!