Senior Edge Routing & Reliability Engineer

INFRO; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

INFRO is seeking a senior individual-contributor to set the technical direction for routing and reliability, and to do much of the building yourself.

You will own route resolution, retries, circuit breaking, telemetry, and incident response, with a focus on fast, observable decisions at the edge.

This role emphasizes strong design review capabilities and practical leadership through written designs and reviews.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience with ownership of a latency-sensitive production service.
• Deep knowledge of retry and backoff policy, timeouts, load shedding and failure isolation.
• Experience running incident response and writing blameless postmortems.
• Strong TypeScript or another typed language; comfortable with TypeScript day to day.
• Proven track record of technical leadership through design documents.

Responsibilities

• Own route resolution, weighted and priority strategies, per-target retries, circuit breaking and connection health.
• Define gateway guarantees and limitations, and ensure docs reflect them precisely.
• Design and implement failure drills and load tests to prove failover works before customer use.
• Build telemetry to answer which provider failed, for whom, since when.
• Review gateway designs to raise the bar on correctness and operability.

Skills

Backend engineering

Infrastructure

Latency sensitivity

Retry/backoff policy

TypeScript

Technical leadership

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Job description

INFRO is seeking a senior individual-contributor to set the technical direction for routing and reliability, and to do much of the building yourself.

You will own route resolution, retries, circuit breaking, telemetry, and incident response, with a focus on fast, observable decisions at the edge.

This role emphasizes strong design review capabilities and practical leadership through written designs and reviews.