Staff Platform Engineer - AI-Driven Traffic & Gateway Leader

Intuit; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 188,500 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit is seeking a Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership for the Traffic Team, overseeing the central API Gateway, Service Mesh, and MCP Gateway initiatives that span Intuit’s products. You will help shape architecture, security, and performance for low-latency traffic across the org.

The role emphasizes senior engineering leadership without direct reports, with focus on migrations, resiliency, and AI-agent‑driven traffic operations, including incident response and cross-team

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience in large-scale, low-latency systems.
• Deep hands-on expertise with Envoy and/or Istio, or modern service mesh architectures.
• Strong systems-level programming in Go and/or Java, with cross-language experience.

Responsibilities

• Set architecture and engineering direction for the Traffic platform across API Gateway, Service Mesh, and MCP Gateway.
• Lead design and hardening of the MCP Gateway, including auth flows for AI agents and security readiness.
• Drive AI-agent-enabled traffic operations and automated config impact analysis.
• Own major migrations end-to-end with backward compatibility and blast-radius containment.
• Apply resiliency practices to reduce P1/P2 incidents.
• Act as escalation point during high-severity incidents and perform root-cause analysis.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise technical bar through reviews and pairing.

Skills

Envoy/Istio experience

Go/Java

Authn/Authz design

Incident response

AWS networking

Technical leadership

Tools

Envoy

Istio

xDS APIs

OAuth

mTLS

Job description

Intuit is seeking a Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership for the Traffic Team, overseeing the central API Gateway, Service Mesh, and MCP Gateway initiatives that span Intuit’s products. You will help shape architecture, security, and performance for low-latency traffic across the org.

The role emphasizes senior engineering leadership without direct reports, with focus on migrations, resiliency, and AI-agent‑driven traffic operations, including incident response and cross-team