Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Service Mesh & Edge Platform

Intuit Inc.; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Credit Karma is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the technical vision for a domain within our service mesh and edge tier, guiding design through rollout and long-term health.

You will lead complex system design, establish engineering best practices, and coach engineers to work more independently while collaborating with cross-functional teams in a high-traffic production environment.

Qualifications

• Experience owning the technical vision for a domain or system end-to-end in a high-traffic production environment.
• Deep experience designing, building, and owning production systems code in Go.
• Solid experience operating large-scale distributed systems in production, with Kubernetes, Nomad, ECS, or comparable orchestration.
• A track record of establishing engineering best practices and raising the bar for the team.
• A track record of coaching other engineers, through code review, design feedback, and mentorship.
• Ability to work effectively with peers and stakeholders outside your immediate team.
• A history of ramping quickly into unfamiliar technical domains and shipping meaningful work within months.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision and strategy for a domain within our service mesh and edge tier from design through implementation, rollout, and long-term health
• Lead the technical design of complex systems, weighing tradeoffs and foreseeing long-term implications
• Establish and encourage engineering best practices within the team, driving what operational excellence looks like for the systems you own
• Solve ambiguous, cross-cutting problems and identify productivity improvements that reach beyond your own work
• Orchestrate the work by sequencing dependencies, surfacing risks early, and adapting plans as requirements shift
• Partner with adjacent teams and stakeholders when your domain's direction touches their systems
• Coach and give actionable feedback to other engineers, helping them drive projects independently and sharpen their technical judgment

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Go programming

Distributed systems

Engineering best practices

Coaching

Stakeholder collaboration

Fast learner

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

Envoy

Job description

Credit Karma is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the technical vision for a domain within our service mesh and edge tier, guiding design through rollout and long-term health.

You will lead complex system design, establish engineering best practices, and coach engineers to work more independently while collaborating with cross-functional teams in a high-traffic production environment.