Senior Edge Engineer - AI-Native Networking & Traffic

Persona; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

Unlimited PTO

Professional development stipend

Job summary

Persona, a configurable identity platform, is building out its Edge team to own the full traffic path from the Cloudflare edge to the service mesh. You will define what great looks like for the traffic layer, shipping high-performance and reliable networking features that empower engineers and customers alike.

You'll help shape engineering practices, tooling, and governance, while expanding networking into new regions as Persona grows globally, with a clear ownership from day one.

Qualifications

• AI-first approach to building and shipping production services.
• Experience diagnosing production issues at the network layer.
• Hands-on experience managing infrastructure as code with governance.
• Hands-on networking in DNS, WAF, service mesh, and Kubernetes ingress.

Responsibilities

• Own edge networking configuration and enable self-service traffic changes.
• Shape team practices and standards across the SDLC, AI tooling, chaos engineering, and observability.
• Evolve the ingress layer for reliability and observability.
• Manage DNS across internal clusters and external zones.
• Build network-layer observability for latency and error rates.
• Extend networking into new regions as Persona expands globally.

Skills

AI-native approach

Network debugging

Infrastructure as code

Kubernetes networking

Tools

Cloudflare

Istio

GKE

Ruby on Rails

Job description

Persona, a configurable identity platform, is building out its Edge team to own the full traffic path from the Cloudflare edge to the service mesh. You will define what great looks like for the traffic layer, shipping high-performance and reliable networking features that empower engineers and customers alike.

You'll help shape engineering practices, tooling, and governance, while expanding networking into new regions as Persona grows globally, with a clear ownership from day one.