Staff Software Engineer (API Gateway / Service Mesh)

  • San Diego, CA
  • Posted 32 days ago | Updated 10 hours ago

Overview

On Site
Full Time

Skills

Financial technology
QuickBooks
MailChimp
API
Network
Proxies
Nginx
Rust
Docker
Microservices
Computer networking
WebAssembly (Wasm)
Prototyping
Research
Software development
SaaS
Kubernetes
RESTful
Leadership
Open source
Analytical skill
Data
Pattern recognition
Communication
Presentations
Computer science

Job Details

Company Overview

Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With approximately 100 million customers worldwide using products such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.

Job Overview

Join the Intuit's DevX group as a Staff Software Engineer developing the Service Mesh for the Intuit Kubernetes Service.

Intuit's Service Mesh is a cutting edge technology built on the open source Istio project which coupled with Intuit's Kubernetes Service has revolutionized service to service communication for hundreds of services in Intuit's ecosystem.

The Service Mesh team is looking to reinvent service to service communication at scale and innovate and contribute back into open source. We are looking for team members that love new challenges, cracking tough problems, and working cross-functionally. If you are looking to join a fast-paced, innovative, and incredibly fun team, then we encourage you to apply.

Responsibilities

  • Developing, maintaining, and innovating large scale, developer-facing platforms
  • Familiar with security best practices
  • Familiar with the development challenges inherent with adoption of API Gateway or ServiceMesh platforms in large scale organizations
  • Good understanding of networking fundamentals
  • Experience with network proxies like nginx/envoy/rust
  • Good understanding of L4/L7 load-balancers
  • Experience working with Kubernetes/Docker
  • Experience building platforms for microservices ecosystems
  • Experience with networking in Kubernetes
  • Experience working with Istio or any Service Mesh
  • Experience working with Envoy and envoy WASM filters
  • Experience maintaining/contributing to open source projects
  • Always Be Learning: Experience with open source technologies. You're prototyping or researching the up and coming technology and solutions


Qualifications

  • 5+ years of hands-on software development experience
  • Experience developing scalable consumer-facing SaaS software using modern technologies including Istio, Go, Kubernetes, RESTful web
  • Experience with leveraging, contributing to and leading open source community projects
  • Strategic and analytical thinker who is hypothesis-driven and uses data, judgment, and pattern recognition for learning and moving quickly
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent work-related experience
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