Staff Platform Engineer — Scale Service Mesh & Edge Systems

Intuit; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 189,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the technical vision for a domain within our service mesh and edge tier. You’ll drive design through production, set standards, and guide engineers with reviews and mentorship.

You will partner across teams to align domain direction, tackle cross-cutting reliability challenges, and push for operational excellence in high-traffic environments.

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
• Experience operating large-scale distributed systems in production (Kubernetes/Nomad/ECS)
• Track record of establishing engineering best practices and raising the bar for the team
• Track record of coaching other engineers through code reviews and mentorship
• Ability to work with peers and stakeholders outside the team
• Ability to learn fast and ship meaningful work within months

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision and strategy for a domain within service mesh and edge tier from design through implementation
• Lead the technical design of complex systems, weigh tradeoffs and long-term implications
• Establish engineering best practices and operational excellence for the owned systems
• Solve ambiguous, cross-cutting problems and identify productivity improvements
• Coordinate work by sequencing dependencies and surfacing risks early
• Partner with adjacent teams when domain direction touches other systems
• Coach and provide actionable feedback to engineers to work more independently

Skills

Technical vision

Go programming

Distributed systems

Kubernetes/ECS/Nomad

Engineering leadership

Code review/mentorship

Stakeholder collaboration

Fast learning

Tools

Kubernetes

Nomad

ECS

Job description

Intuit is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the technical vision for a domain within our service mesh and edge tier. You’ll drive design through production, set standards, and guide engineers with reviews and mentorship.

You will partner across teams to align domain direction, tackle cross-cutting reliability challenges, and push for operational excellence in high-traffic environments.