Staff Software Engineer (Traffic)

Peregrine; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Unlimited PTO

Competitive 401k

Wellness stipend

HSA

Parental leave

Professional development

Recreational perks

Job summary

Peregrine seeks a Staff Software Engineer, Traffic to expand our high-impact Platform team. You will design and build software-defined networking capabilities enabling secure, reliable, and scalable communication across Peregrine, spanning cloud, Kubernetes networking, service-to-service communication, and traffic management.

You’ll own the reliability and observability of networking and traffic systems, drive architectural direction, and collaborate across Infrastructure, Security, and product

Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, or network engineering roles.
• Ability to drive technical direction and make architectural decisions across teams.
• Experience building or operating distributed systems or networking infrastructure (e.g., control planes, traffic management, gateways or proxies, automation systems).
• Strong programming skills (e.g., Python, Go) 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 VPCs, routing, network policy, and service connectivity.

Responsibilities

• Design and build software-defined networking capabilities for secure, reliable, and scalable communication across Peregrine.
• Work across cloud and Kubernetes networking, service-to-service communication, traffic management, routing, and observability; build control planes, services, and automation.
• Design 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.

Skills

Python

Go

Distributed systems

Networking

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud networking

Job description

• We are looking to add a Staff Software Engineer, Traffic to expand our high-impact Platform team
• You'll design and build software-defined networking capabilities that enable secure, reliable, and scalable communication across Peregrine
• You'll 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 and easy to operate at scale
• 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

Benefits

• Health insurance: Enjoy top-notch health, dental, and vision insurance. Your health matters
• Unlimited PTO: Assume responsibility for how much time you take off. Trust is everything
• Competitive 401k: Leverage a Peregrine-sponsored 401k plan. And think of your future
• Wellness stipend: Use Peregrine's wellness stipend to focus your body and mind
• HSA: Set aside money to pay for qualified medical expenses with a HSA
• Parental leave: Because we want to support the Peregrine parents out there
• Professional development: Access a range of professional development courses and resources
• Recreational perks: Enjoy a whole host of travel and leisure discounts, and explore new things

Strong debugging skills and ability to troubleshoot across application, system, and network boundaries9+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, or network engineering roles, with a focus on building and operating systems at scaleAbility to drive technical direction and make architectural decisions across teamsExperience building or operating distributed systems or networking infrastructure (e.g., control planes, traffic management, gateways or proxies, automation systems)Strong programming skills (e.g., Python, Go, or similar) with experience building production systems or servicesBased in and around one of our offices in San Francisco and excited to work in-officeDeep 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