Staff Engineer - Traffic Infrastructure & Cloud Networking

Fireworks; San Mateo; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Fireworks is hiring a Member of Technical Staff for the Traffic Infrastructure team. You will own the traffic layer behind our generative AI platform, including proxies, load balancers, service mesh, and routing across regions and clouds.

This highly technical role demands distributed systems expertise, cloud networking, and balancing latency, cost, and simplicity. You will collaborate with ML, product, and platform teams and help set the technical direction for the team, mentoring engineers and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 5+ years of experience building backend or network infrastructure in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Strong software development skills in Go, C++, Rust, Java, or Python.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and networking fundamentals, including performance optimization.
• Full product lifecycle ownership, from design through implementation to production.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build scalable, fault-tolerant traffic and networking services, including ingress and egress, load balancing, routing, and QoS controls.
• Lead technical design discussions, mentor engineers, and establish best practices for large-scale infrastructure.
• Drive network optimization, cost reduction, performance tuning, and scaling improvements.
• Evaluate and integrate cloud-native and open-source technologies to strengthen platform capabilities and reliability.
• Own systems end to end from design through deployment and observability with a focus on availability and operations.

Skills

Go

C++

Rust

Java

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Envoy

Istio

DPDK

Job description

Fireworks is hiring a Member of Technical Staff for the Traffic Infrastructure team. You will own the traffic layer behind our generative AI platform, including proxies, load balancers, service mesh, and routing across regions and clouds.

This highly technical role demands distributed systems expertise, cloud networking, and balancing latency, cost, and simplicity. You will collaborate with ML, product, and platform teams and help set the technical direction for the team, mentoring engineers and