Staff Software Engineer, Service Mesh & Edge Platform

Intuit; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 189,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

Credit Karma is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the technical vision for a key domain within our service mesh and edge tier. You will drive design through production, coaching engineers and raising the bar for reliability at scale.

You will work with Go, distributed systems, and modern orchestration platforms to build robust infrastructure that serves millions of members across North America. This role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and scalable engineering practices in a

Qualifications

• Experience owning the technical vision for a domain or system end-to-end in a high-traffic production environment, with accountability for its long-term health.
• Deep experience designing, building, and owning production systems code in a language like Go.
• Solid experience operating large-scale distributed systems in production, with Kubernetes, Nomad, ECS, or similar 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 when your domain touches their systems.
• 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

Go programming

Distributed systems

Code review

Mentorship

System design

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Istio

Envoy

Nomad

ECS

Job description

Credit Karma is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the technical vision for a key domain within our service mesh and edge tier. You will drive design through production, coaching engineers and raising the bar for reliability at scale.

You will work with Go, distributed systems, and modern orchestration platforms to build robust infrastructure that serves millions of members across North America. This role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and scalable engineering practices in a