Senior Software Engineer, API Gateway -

What you'll be doing:

• Work with the Product management team to identify and implement enhancements.
• Propose and Implement POCs and prototypes for networking software in rust
• Work closely with engineering teams to architect, design, and understand upcoming new features.
• Bug fixing, performance tuning, and low-level optimizations.
• Engage with the open-source community.
• Provide help to the support and escalation teams.
• Mentoring and pairing with other team members.
• And any additional tasks required by the manager.

• Comfortable working in a remote distributed team, with minimal supervision.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, both as a means to work with others and to write documentation.
• Solid hands-on low-level technical expertise for Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling.
Experience programming low-level networking systems:
• Nginx and/or Openresty are preferred but others like Apache are also valid.
Experience in any of the following:
• IdP/AuthZ systems and integration, monitoring and profiling systems, network traffic inspection.
• At least 2 years of experience working with Rust
• Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging applications that are highly scalable, distributed, reliable and resilient.
• Familiarity with a scripting language. Lua would be the ideal, but Perl, Python, or Ruby also serve.
• You've spent time developing and supporting a large scale SaaS platform.
• You have at least 5-ish years working in a team to develop, package and deliver server-side applications and components.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT.
• Experience with Envoy or Istio.
• Understanding of VM implementations like eBPF and/or WASM.