Staff Software Engineer, Traffic & Networking at Scale

Peregrine Technologies, Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Performance bonus

Job summary

Peregrine Technologies, Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to expand our high-impact Platform team. You’ll design and build software-defined networking capabilities for secure, scalable communication across Peregrine.

You’ll work across cloud and Kubernetes networking, service-to-service communication, traffic management, routing, and observability—building control planes, services, and automation to operate at scale.

Qualifications

• 9+ years in software, infrastructure, or network engineering roles focused on scalable OS design and operation.
• Strong Python, Go skills with production-system experience.
• Deep networking knowledge: 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, gateways).
• Strong debugging abilities across app, system, and network boundaries.
• Ability to drive technical direction and architectural decisions across teams.
• Based in the SF area and comfortable working 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

Experience with Python

Go

Networking fundamentals

Cloud networking

Kubernetes networking

Distributed systems

Debugging

Architectural direction

Job description

Peregrine Technologies, Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to expand our high-impact Platform team. You’ll design and build software-defined networking capabilities for secure, scalable communication across Peregrine.

You’ll work across cloud and Kubernetes networking, service-to-service communication, traffic management, routing, and observability—building control planes, services, and automation to operate at scale.