Staff Infra Engineer - Networking Control Plane (Remote)

Optomi; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Optomi seeks a Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer to help build the next generation of its hybrid cloud infrastructure platform, focusing on networking, control planes, and platform APIs for private data centers.

You will shape architecture and collaborate with deeply technical engineers to modernize legacy infra, improve reliability, and deliver cloud-like capabilities across compute, storage, and networking in private data centers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience in infrastructure or platform engineering.
• Deep networking expertise and understanding of how networking systems operate under the hood.
• Experience with distributed systems design and implementation.
• Proficiency with Go, Java, Python, Rust, or C++ and Linux-based environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes networking and platform internals; SDN and service mesh familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop networking infrastructure services, control planes, and orchestration capabilities.
• Build platform APIs to enable modern hybrid cloud operations.
• Modernize legacy infrastructure and deliver cloud-like capabilities in private data centers.
• Analyze existing systems and identify opportunities to improve reliability, automation, and performance.

Skills

Infrastructure systems

Platform engineering

Networking concepts

Routing concepts

Control planes

Distributed systems

Linux

Kubernetes

SDN

Service mesh

Go

Java

Python

Rust

C++

Tools

Kubernetes

Linux

Go

Java

Python

Rust

C++

Service mesh

Job description

Optomi seeks a Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer to help build the next generation of its hybrid cloud infrastructure platform, focusing on networking, control planes, and platform APIs for private data centers.

You will shape architecture and collaborate with deeply technical engineers to modernize legacy infra, improve reliability, and deliver cloud-like capabilities across compute, storage, and networking in private data centers.