Senior Software Engineer - Network Services / Proxy Development

Senior Software Engineer - Network Services / Proxy Development Seniority Senior engineer, ordinarily 8 or more years of relevant software or systems experience. Mission: Take ownership of an existing Go-based proof of concept and mature it into secure, maintainable, production-ready proxy software. Core responsibilities · Review and rapidly understand an existing proxy codebase. · Develop traffic-management, failover, connection-draining, recovery, telemetry, and operational-control capabilities. · Build reliable software for persistent TCP connections and stateful traffic movement. · Resolve defects and improve performance, resiliency, security, and maintainability. · Build APIs and integration points for automation and operational tooling. · Own unit, component, and integration testing as part of development. · Participate in code reviews, SDLC integration, vulnerability remediation, performance certification, and production support. · Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly to improve engineering productivity and quality. Required skills · Strong hands-on development experience in Go or C is mandatory. Candidates without demonstrated Go or C programming experience should not be submitted. · Linux systems programming, socket programming, concurrency, multithreading, and network services. · TCP/IP and distributed-systems fundamentals. · High-performance, highly available, long-running services. · Automated testing, debugging, profiling, secure coding, and CI/CD practices. Preferred experience · Proxy, load-balancing, service-mesh, network-appliance, or traffic-management products. · Linux kernel networking and eBPF. · Experience moving a proof of concept through enterprise SDLC and production readiness.