Staff Software Engineer, Networking — Platform Networking

Peregrine; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Peregrine is expanding its Platform team to design and build software-defined networking capabilities that enable secure, reliable, and scalable communication across cloud, Kubernetes, and customer environments. You will work on control planes, service connectivity, and observability to support enterprise-scale networking at Peregrine.

We seek a Staff Software Engineer with 9+ years in software, infrastructure, or network roles, strong Python/Go skills, and deep networking expertise.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, or network engineering roles, with a focus on building and operating systems at scale.
• Strong programming skills (e.g., Python, Go, or similar) with experience building production systems or services.
• Deep understanding of networking fundamentals (e.g., TCP/IP, routing, DNS, load balancing, NAT, VPNs).
• Experience with cloud and Kubernetes networking, including concepts such as VPCs, routing, network policy, and service connectivity.
• Experience building or operating distributed systems or networking infrastructure (e.g., control planes, traffic management, gateways or proxies, automation systems).
• Strong debugging skills and ability to troubleshoot across application, system, and network boundaries.
• Ability to drive technical direction and make architectural decisions across teams.
• Based in and around one of our offices in San Francisco and excited to work in-office.

Responsibilities

• Design and build systems that provision, manage, and scale network connectivity across customer, cloud, and Kubernetes environments
• Build platform capabilities for service communication, routing, traffic management, segmentation, and observability
• Extend and improve APIs and services that make networking capabilities reliable and self-service
• Design systems for safe configuration, policy enforcement, traffic rollout, and failure recovery
• Own and improve the reliability, scalability, and observability of networking and traffic management systems
• Lead debugging of complex connectivity and traffic issues across application, Kubernetes, cloud, and network boundaries
• Drive architectural direction and networking standards while collaborating across Infrastructure, Security, and product engineering teams]

Skills

Python/Go

Networking fundamentals

Cloud & Kubernetes networking

Distributed systems

Debugging skills

Architectural direction

Job description

Peregrine is expanding its Platform team to design and build software-defined networking capabilities that enable secure, reliable, and scalable communication across cloud, Kubernetes, and customer environments. You will work on control planes, service connectivity, and observability to support enterprise-scale networking at Peregrine.

We seek a Staff Software Engineer with 9+ years in software, infrastructure, or network roles, strong Python/Go skills, and deep networking expertise.