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# Staff Software Engineer, Traffic

- **Company:** Peregrine Corporation
- **Location:** Lakefield, MN, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Computer Networks, Software Debugging, Network Address Translation, Distributed Systems, Domain Name System (DNS), Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Python (Programming Language), Networking Basics, Network Connections, Routing, Network Administration, Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, TCP/IP, Web Services, Computer Networking Systems, Load Balancing, Istio, Build Management, Kubernetes, SDN Network
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/staff-software-engineer-traffic-washington-mn--98dd7048-cafd-4cc9-8328-e9323a6903d8

## About the Role

Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Software Design, Automation, Cloud Computing, Network Connectivity, Network Administration/Management, Application Programming Interface (API), Systems Administration/Management, Reliability Engineering, * 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 (service mesh and CNI experience, such as Istio or Cilium is a big plus)
 * 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 SF, DC or NYC and excited to work in-office.

## Description

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