Senior Technical Lead

• 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.

Senior engineer, ordinarily 8 or more years of relevant software or systems experience., * 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.

Other Requirements

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.