Senior Platform Engineer (Network and Edge Services)
$81,000–$169,000 year
Remote · United States or Canada
Job Summary
Senior Platform Engineer, Network and Edge Services responsible for delivering end-to-end network infrastructure (DNS, edge, ingress, service mesh, CDN, edge protection) and building self-service platforms to empower engineers. Collaborate with security, platform, and product teams to ensure observable, secure, and resilient infrastructure. Design and implement tooling and abstractions to enable teams to provision networking needs independently, drive incident resolution, and continuously improve through postmortems. Key skills include Go, Terraform, DNS/CDN/WAF/Load Balancing/Ingress/Service Mesh, observability, SLIs/SLOs, and a security-first mindset. Remote role within the US or Canada with periodic in-person meetups, and a compensation package including base salary, benefits, PTO, equity, and incentive programs.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with cloud networking and distributed systems at SaaS or similar scale
- expertise in DNS, CDN, WAF, Load Balancing, Ingress, Service Mesh
- proficiency in Go (or similar languages) and Terraform
- experience building reliable, observable platforms and defining SLIs/SLOs
- on-call experience and incident resolution
- security-first approach with least-privilege, encryption in transit
- ability to deliver end-to-end network stack projects (service mesh, DNS, ingress/egress, CDN, edge protection, L4/L7 policy)
- experience designing self-service network abstractions and tooling
- familiarity with Envoy, Linkerd, CloudFront, Cloudflare
- open source contributions and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001)
- remote work capability within US or Canada
- annual base salary visibility per region (USD for US, CAD converted to USD for Canada)
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