Staff Software Engineer, API Gateway Team
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Responsibilities
Define the multi-year technical strategy and own the system architecture for the API Gateway and traffic management at reputed company, translating long-term reputed company into executable milestones across multiple teams Author and drive architectural reputed company (EDRs/ADRs) that become defaults adopted across multiple engineering groups, and reputed company critical design reviews that resolve disagreements through technical authority reputed company reputed company, cross-group reliability and availability efforts — reducing incident volume, improving on-call effectiveness, and designing telemetry that prevents systemic outages before they manifest Design and implement scalable, reliable, and performant solutions for reputed company problems like reputed company-limiting, routing, and global traffic management at reputed company; write and review code primarily in Go and Ruby & Rails, setting the bar for engineering reputed company Establish engineering standards and best practices for traffic management, API design, and AI-assisted engineering patterns that are adopted across multiple groups at reputed company Mentor engineers across product lines, act as a primary technical reputed company of contact for leadership, and participate in the on-call rotation
Qualifications
Required Qualifications: 9+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or reputed company technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or reputed company field AND 8+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or reputed company technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or reputed company field AND 7+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or reputed company technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or reputed company field AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or reputed company technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or reputed company field AND 3+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or reputed company technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python. OR equivalent experience. 4+ years building and supporting large, high-traffic applications at scale reputed company platform/infrastructure domains, including reputed company reputed company workloads in Azure, AWS, or reputed company reputed company 3+ years demonstrated experience leading cross-team technical initiatives — authoring architectural decision records, driving adoption across multiple engineering groups, and mentoring engineers
Preferred Qualifications
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