Platform Software Engineer

Summary

Join JumpCloud's Platform Engineering team as an experienced engineer to tackle complex problems using cutting-edge technologies. You will be responsible for managing service-to-service network traffic and external customer interactions. This role involves defining and implementing routing, load balancing, and communication strategies in a distributed microservice environment. You will implement best practices, design highly available systems, and build tools to scale the platform. Collaboration with other engineering teams is crucial. The position is remote, requires 3+ years of professional programming experience, and includes on-call responsibilities.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional programming experience (JumpCloud uses Golang, Python, NodeJS)
• Professional experience developing and deploying applications in a public cloud environment (AWS, GCP, Oracle, or Azure) with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience working with service mesh technologies (e.g. Istio)
• Experience working with highly available distributed systems
• Experience leveraging tools to monitor platform stability, availability and performance (e.g. Datadog)
• Experience with infrastructure as code solutions (e.g. Terraform)
• Knowledge of traffic engineering principles, practices, and standards
• Passion for addressing complex engineering problems/challenges
• Strong problem solving, communication and collaboration skills
• A strong team player who helps the team live by our core values: building connections, thinking big and 1% better every day

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for defining and implementing routing, load balancing and general communication strategies in a distributed microservice-based containerized environment
• Implement best practices, canary roll outs, client-based routing and fine-grained security control to deliver distributed applications at scale
• Design highly available systems, building tools and scaling the platform as well as modernizing and evolving key components

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing core infrastructure components of a platform
• Experience managing cloud deployments with Terraform
• Container orchestration experience (e.g. Kubernetes), bonus for Istio
• Strong understanding of networking protocols

Benefits

Remote work