Senior Software Development Engineer (IC4) - Edge Infrastructure
Remote · United States or Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Summary
Senior Software Development Engineer (IC4) focused on edge infrastructure, privacy compliance, and globally deployed systems. Owns mission-critical, high-availability deployments with automated QA and CI/CD gates, leads technical initiatives, and collaborates with program managers and customer stakeholders to drive architecture, rollout strategies, and risk mitigation for consent/privacy-related features across global properties.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of professional software development at a senior level
- Production, hands-on C and C++ (plus Python and WASM toolchain exposure)
- Direct work on high-performance HTTP proxies (Apache Traffic Server, Nginx) or CDNs
- Linux kernel / systems-level troubleshooting and crash analysis
- Ownership of a mission-critical, globally-deployed system, including automated test suites and CI/CD quality gates
- Strong, hands-on experience with C, C++, Python, and WASM toolchains
- Strong working knowledge of HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2, including headers, cookies, caching, and connection handling in the context of edge proxies
- Direct experience with high-performance HTTP proxies (ATS or Nginx) or CDNs
- Solid understanding of the Linux kernel, networking, and systems-level troubleshooting
- Good understanding of crash analysis
- Practical experience building comprehensive automated test suites and integrating quality gates into CI/CD pipelines for mission-critical systems
- Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and complex problem-solving in high-risk production environments
- Strong awareness of system dependencies and business impact, with experience managing complexity and tradeoffs
- Excellent cross-functional communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to translate complex technical and legal requirements to non-technical audiences
- Hands-on experience with third-party CDN platforms such as Cloudflare or Fastly, including WASM-based edge solutions
- Familiarity with consent and privacy management platforms (e.g. Didomi) and global privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA
- Experience designing bucketed or percentage-based rollout controls for safe, gradual global deployments
- Prior experience mentoring peers and guiding dependent engineering teams
- Maintain full technical ownership of the customer’s cookie and consent management plugin, including its deployment, performance, and stability across all consuming properties
- Formalize and drive the technical roadmap and operational excellence for the system, leading the design and architecture of medium-to-large components and driving cross-team standardization
- Serve as the technical lead for high-risk, cross-functional consent and compliance rollouts that directly impact advertising revenue and legal requirements, and design and implement proactive risk-mitigation strategies such as bucketed or percentage-based rollout controls
- Lead strategic initiatives such as third-party CDN proofs of concept (e.g., Cloudflare and Fastly WASM-based solutions) to establish repeatable, portable architectural patterns for the customer’s edge organization
- Establish system guardrails and improve core system quality, including comprehensive automated test coverage and platform-agnostic testing frameworks to eliminate critical regressions and ensure service stability
- Translate complex technical and legal requirements across privacy, legal, and advertising teams, and provide mentorship and guidance to peers and dependent teams
- Translate ambiguous, high-level business and compliance needs into reliable, globally-deployed system solutions
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