Staff Software Development Engineer - DevOps

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the technical vision and long-term evolution of the API Gateway and traffic platform supporting both north-south (external ingress) and east-west (internal service-to-service) traffic, operating at scale across a multi-cloud environment.
• Architect and drive a unified traffic abstraction layer that decouples backend services from CDN-specific implementations (Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare), enabling centralized policy control, metadata-driven routing, automated multi-CDN failover, and future extensibility.
• Set architectural standards and design patterns for ingress, traffic routing, and API management, influencing multiple teams and ensuring consistency, security, scalability, and reliability across the organization.
• Lead complex, cross-team initiatives spanning networking, platform, SRE, security, and observability teams to deliver resilient, cloud-agnostic ingress solutions that account for varying network topologies, latency characteristics, and failure modes.
• Design and govern CI/CD and GitOps workflows for critical traffic infrastructure, defining best practices for safe deployments, progressive rollouts, automated validation, and rollback strategies across environments.
• Drive infrastructure-as-code maturity using Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes, establishing reusable modules, golden paths, and guardrails that enable teams to deploy and operate traffic components safely and independently.
• Build and evolve foundational tooling and services (primarily in Go or Python) that improve visibility, control, scalability, and operational efficiency of API traffic systems at scale.
• Define observability strategy and standards for ingress and internal traffic systems, including metrics, logs, tracing, and SLOs; partner closely with observability and SRE teams to ensure systems are diagnosable and production-ready by default.
• Act as a technical multiplier by mentoring senior engineers, reviewing high-impact designs, unblocking teams, and raising the overall quality bar for platform engineering and distributed systems practices.
• Anticipate future needs and risks, proactively identifying scaling limits, security gaps, and reliability concerns, and driving strategic investments before they become production issues.

Skills and Attributes to Success:

• Expert-level programming capability in Go or Python, with a track record of designing and delivering production-grade platforms, internal tooling, and services that operate reliably at scale; able to make pragmatic trade-offs between performance, maintainability, and velocity.
• Deep, hands-on experience with API Gateway platforms in large-scale production environments, including ownership of architecture, rollout strategies, failure handling, and long-term evolution of ingress and traffic management systems.
• Strong understanding of CDN architectures and integrations (Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare or similar), including cache strategies, request routing, edge security, failover mechanisms, and best practices for high-availability API delivery across regions and providers.
• Advanced proficiency with infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration, leveraging Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm to design reusable modules, define platform standards, and enable self-service while maintaining strong operational and security guardrails.
• Deep knowledge of networking and distributed systems fundamentals, including TLS termination, L4/L7 routing, traffic shaping, rate limiting, retries, circuit breaking, and failure isolation, with the ability to reason about system behavior under load and partial failure.
• Proven ability to design systems with observability, automation, and resiliency as first-class concerns, defining metrics, logs, traces, SLIs/SLOs, and automated remediation strategies in partnership with SRE and observability teams.
• Strong architectural judgment and systems thinking, able to navigate ambiguity, evaluate multiple solution paths, and influence technical decisions across teams through design reviews and technical leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a technical multiplier, mentoring senior engineers, raising engineering standards, and helping teams ship safer, faster, and more reliable systems.

Preferred Education & Experience:

• B-Tech or M-Tech in Computer Science or a related technical discipline from a reputed university.
• 8+ years of experience in Infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles focused on production traffic, automation and API delivery.