Senior Software Engineer - Proxy & Connectivity Platform

Bloomberg; Ireland; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Bloomberg seeks a Senior Software Engineer to help build the Proxy & Connectivity Platform in Dublin. The role centers on designing and operating a production-scale platform that manages proxy and observability infrastructure, with emphasis on automation, safety, and reliability.

You will own end-to-end platform development, collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor others, and influence architecture as the platform evolves for Bloomberg's clients worldwide.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production software platforms.
• Ability to reason through ambiguous technical problems and make sound design decisions.
• Strong written, verbal, and diagram-based communication skills.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and build software systems that manage proxy and observability infrastructure safely at scale.
• Build deployment, configuration, validation, and observability platforms for production infrastructure.
• Add safety, automation, and controls around change management to simplify reviews and rollbacks.
• Improve telemetry, alerting, and health checks for easier diagnosis.
• Operate the production infrastructure with on-call rotation.

Skills

Functional programming

Object-oriented programming

Production systems

Engineering judgment

Communication skills

Education

CS/Engineering degree

Tools

Humio

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

KVM virtualization

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - Proxy & Connectivity Platform

Location: Dublin

Business Area: Engineering and CTO

Description & Requirements

Bloomberg's products and services depend on the safe, reliable movement of network traffic across different environments. Our team builds the platform that manages how proxy and observability infrastructure is deployed, configured, validated, monitored, and operated, playing a critical role in enabling and monitoring connectivity across network zones.

This is an end-to-end ownership role: the team owns both the software platform and the underlying proxy and observability infrastructure it manages. As the platform matures, we will continue to operate these production services while making them safer, more automated, and easier to manage over time.

We are building the Dublin team that will own this platform going forward, and this is a rare opportunity to join at an early stage of both the team and the office's growth. You'll be part of establishing a new engineering presence for a critical platform within a rapidly growing Dublin office, helping define how the team works, how the system evolves, and how we scale the technology around it. Joining now means shaping the engineering standards, architecture, and operating model for a platform that will be foundational for years to come.

You do not need to join as a networking expert. We are looking for senior software engineers who enjoy building reliable infrastructure platforms, can reason carefully about production systems, and are willing to learn the proxy and observability domain on the job. If you enjoy building infrastructure-as-code, deployment workflows, validation systems, and automation for complex production environments, this role should feel familiar even if the domain is new to you.

This is a strong fit for engineers who want to build platform software that has real production impact, supporting teams across Bloomberg and ultimately enabling the reliable, secure connectivity that Bloomberg's clients depend on in real-world markets every day.

Technologies We Use

Our platform is built using Bloomberg's internal engineering ecosystem and production infrastructure tooling, including:

• Python
• Go
• KVM-based virtualization on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Observability platforms such as Humio, Splunk, and Grafana
• Vendor and open-source proxy and observability technologies

We'll trust you to

• Design and build software systems that manage proxy and observability infrastructure safely at scale.
• Build deployment, configuration, validation, and observability platforms for production infrastructure.
• Build systems that add safety, automation, and strong controls around change management, making changes easier to review, validate, and roll back while reducing reliance on manual operator steps.
• Improve telemetry, alerting, and health checks so issues are easier to detect and diagnose.
• Operate the production infrastructure your systems manage, with support from the team and clear escalation paths.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for production infrastructure.
• Work with internal users and partner teams to understand requirements, explain constraints, and deliver supportable solutions.
• Review your own code and others' code carefully, with high standards for correctness, design quality, test coverage, maintainability, and operational safety.
• Challenge assumptions and help shape the architecture and operating model as the platform evolves.

You'll need to have

• Strong software engineering experience in a functional or object-oriented programming language. Python and Go are helpful, but strong engineering judgment matters far more than a specific language background.
• Experience building, testing, debugging, and operating production software or infrastructure platforms.
• Ability to reason through ambiguous technical problems, evaluate tradeoffs, and make sound design decisions.
• Strong written, verbal, and diagram-based communication skills.
• High standards for code authorship and review, including careful review of your own changes and others' code for correctness, design quality, test coverage, and long-term maintainability.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, a similar field of study, or equivalent work experience.

We'd love to see

• Experience building deployment platforms, orchestration systems, infrastructure-as-code workflows, or internal developer/operator tooling.
• Experience with observability tools such as Splunk, Grafana, Humio, Prometheus, or similar.
• Experience designing safe rollout, validation, rollback, or automated remediation workflows.
• Experience supporting internal users with diverse requirements while maintaining clear platform standards.
• Familiarity with Linux infrastructure and virtualization.
• Interest in mentoring others and raising the engineering maturity of a team.

You do not need to have

This is a software engineering role, not a network engineering role, we do not expect you to have:

• Prior experience with proxy, network observability, or network security platforms.
• Deep knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, or L1-L7 networking concepts.

If indicated, please note that years of experience are a guide; we will consider applications from all candidates who can demonstrate the skills necessary for the role.

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