Staff Software Engineer, Networking & Traffic Platform

Peregrine; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Benefits

Job summary

Peregrine is seeking a Staff Software Engineer focused on traffic to expand our high-impact Platform team in New York. You’ll design and build software-defined networking capabilities that enable secure, reliable, and scalable communication across Peregrine.

You will work across cloud and Kubernetes networking, service-to-service communication, traffic management, routing, and observability—building the control planes, services, and automation that make complex networking capabilities reliable

Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience in software, infra, or network engineering focused on building and operating systems at scale.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or similar for production systems.
• Deep understanding of TCP/IP, routing, DNS, load balancing, NAT, VPNs.
• Experience with cloud and Kubernetes networking (VPCs, routing, network policy, service connectivity).
• Experience building or operating distributed networking infrastructure (control planes, traffic management).
• Strong debugging skills across application, system, and network boundaries.
• Ability to drive technical direction and make architectural decisions.
• Based in and around New York offices and able to work in-office.

Responsibilities

• Design and build systems for provisioning, managing, and scaling 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 for reliable, self-service networking.
• 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 app, Kubernetes, cloud, and network boundaries.
• Drive architectural direction and networking standards across Infrastructure, Security, and product engineering teams.

Skills

Python

Go

Networking fundamentals

Kubernetes networking

Distributed systems

Cloud experience

Job description

Peregrine is seeking a Staff Software Engineer focused on traffic to expand our high-impact Platform team in New York. You’ll design and build software-defined networking capabilities that enable secure, reliable, and scalable communication across Peregrine.

You will work across cloud and Kubernetes networking, service-to-service communication, traffic management, routing, and observability—building the control planes, services, and automation that make complex networking capabilities reliable