Plaid Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Plaid owning and leading large-scale network infrastructure projects including service mesh upgrades and cloud network modernization. Build tools and strengthen security and compliance boundaries.
Responsibilities
Lead company-wide network changes, such as service mesh upgrades and gateway migrations, using staged rollouts so customers see no disruption.
Simplify and modernize our cloud network, reducing risk and making it easier to operate.
Build self-serve tools in Go and Terraform that let product engineers expose, route and secure their services independently.
Help set stronger security and compliance boundaries in our network without slowing developers down.
Debug complex network issues and turn what you learn into better alerts, dashboards and guardrails.
Take part in on-call, lead incident response for network issues, and drive the follow-up fixes.
Qualification
Experience with cloud networkingAbility to write code in Go or PythonProduction experience with Istio
Required
Experience running production infrastructure at scale, in infrastructure, SRE or network engineering
A solid understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP and load balancing
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes networking, such as a CNI, a service mesh or ingress
Experience with cloud networking, ideally on AWS
Ability to write code in Go or Python
A track record of making large production changes safely, with a plan for rollback
Production experience with Istio, Envoy or Cilium
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