Senior Software Engineer: Scalable Systems & gRPC

Strategic Advantage; Murrieta (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

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Job summary

Strategic Advantage is hiring a Chemical Engineer to design, build, and ship software that serves millions of users every day. Based in Murrieta, CA, this senior role rewards 7 years of .NET Core with autonomy and team-driven growth.

From its base in Murrieta, CA, Strategic Advantage has spent the last decade making Nginx dramatically less painful for technology teams everywhere. Learning out loud is encouraged here, so share the MySQL rabbit hole you fell down yesterday.

Qualifications

• The discipline to finish the boring 20% that makes the rest matter.
• A collaborator who makes the senior review feel less like an exam.
• Curiosity that outpaces your current job description.
• Comfortable owning projects from concept through delivery.
• Proven aptitude for gRPC, ideally near Murrieta, CA.
• A safety-first bias toward action, balanced by knowing when to wait.
• The patience to mentor without taking over the keyboard.

Responsibilities

• Automate build, test, and deployment pipelines for faster release cycles.
• Own data integrity across Strategic Advantage's Node.js stores so Murrieta numbers never lie.
• Optimize application performance, latency, and resource utilization at scale.
• Decode the undocumented gRPC service nobody at Strategic Advantage remembers writing.
• Walk technology stakeholders through Time Management tradeoffs in language Strategic Advantage execs grasp.

Skills

.NET Core

Node.js

gRPC

Software design

Tools

MySQL

Job description

Strategic Advantage is hiring a Chemical Engineer to design, build, and ship software that serves millions of users every day. Based in Murrieta, CA, this senior role rewards 7 years of .NET Core with autonomy and team-driven growth.

From its base in Murrieta, CA, Strategic Advantage has spent the last decade making Nginx dramatically less painful for technology teams everywhere. Learning out loud is encouraged here, so share the MySQL rabbit hole you fell down yesterday.