Staff Software Engineer

Join our team as a Staff Software Engineer, where you will design, build, test, and operate a distributed automation platform. You will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and enhancing our automation suite, owning features end-to-end from database schema to UI. This role spans backend services, frontend development, workflow orchestration, and DevTest activities. You will work with a variety of technologies, including Python, TypeScript, Go, React, MongoDB, Kubernetes, and Docker.

• Design, build, test, and operate a distributed automation platform that orchestrates complex operations at scale.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance the automation suite, owning features end-to-end from database schema to UI.
• Contribute to automated test frameworks, CI/CD workflows, and distributed system reliability, ensuring network services are validated, reliable, and performant.
• Experience with network automation tools such as Netmiko, TextFSM, or Nornir
• Strong Python proficiency with async/await patterns (FastAPI or similar)
• Working proficiency in Go (building and maintaining services)
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience with MongoDB — schema design, async drivers, aggregation, indexing
• Production TypeScript/React experience — components, hooks, server‑state libraries
• Proven years of professional software engineering experience
• CI/CD pipeline development using GitHub Actions or Jenkins
• Hands‑on distributed systems experience — workflow engines, queues, saga patterns, eventual consistency
• Familiarity with routing and network protocols (BGP, VRFs, NAT, PAT) and exposure to devices from Juniper, Cisco, Nokia, or Arista
• Performance testing experience for software or network systems
• Hands‑on work with workflow engines like Temporal, Cadence, Step Functions, or Prefect
• Deep experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers, including streaming RPCs and cross‑language service interactions
• Kafka knowledge — consumer groups, delivery guarantees, async message processing
• Observability tooling — distributed tracing, metrics, and structured logging via OpenTelemetry