Staff Software Engineer, Traffic & Networking Platform

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

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