Senior Software Engineer, Connectivity & API Transformation

Accountabilities

• • Build and evolve a unified federated GraphQL API and the Go-based subgraphs powering customer-facing dashboards and public APIs.

  • Shape service connectivity through VPC and network architecture, service discovery, authentication, and internal traffic standards.

  • Decompose legacy Python systems into well-defined modern services while managing the associated Cassandra data layer, including replication, backup, and disaster recovery.

  • Design and operate workflow orchestration at scale using cloud-native workflows, Pub/Sub-driven execution, and Go services.

  • Establish API standards across GraphQL, gRPC, and REST, serving as a technical resource for engineering initiatives across the organization.

  • Own production systems by defining and monitoring SLOs, resolving incidents, and balancing reliability with delivery speed.

  • Participate in engineering and alert-response on-call rotations and support live production environments.

  • Raise engineering quality through code reviews, architectural feedback, technical guidance, and mentorship.

  Requirements

  • Significant professional experience building and operating production services with Go, together with the ability to work effectively in polyglot environments involving Python and/or Rust.

  • Proven experience designing APIs used by other engineering teams, including sound judgment around schemas, versioning, compatibility, and API evolution across GraphQL, gRPC, or REST.

  • Strong experience with large-scale, high-traffic distributed systems and the design of reliable, scalable production services.

  • Experience decomposing monolithic applications or incrementally modernizing legacy systems while maintaining production continuity.

  • Working knowledge of cloud networking fundamentals, including VPCs, DNS, load balancing, and service-to-service authentication.

  • Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and modern release engineering practices.

  • Experience with a major cloud provider; GCP experience is particularly relevant.

  • Familiarity with observability platforms and practices, including Grafana Cloud, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.

  • Experience supporting production systems and participating in on-call rotations.

  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical decisions while incorporating diverse perspectives.

  • Nice-to-have experience includes GraphQL Federation, federation gateways or routers, schema registries, Rust, Cassandra, stateful production databases, service meshes, private networking, GCP Workflows, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, AlloyDB, MySQL, Redis, Docker, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Vault, WordPress, or Drupal.

  • Visa sponsorship is not currently available for this position.

  Benefits

  • Annual salary of $139,680–$174,600 USD, plus bonus and equity.

  • Industry-competitive compensation and an equity plan.

  • Paid time off, paid sick leave, and 11 paid company holidays.

  • Full medical coverage, including extended health care, dental, and vision.

  • Top-of-the-line equipment.

  • Monthly wellness and reading allowance.

  • Access to LinkedIn Learning for continued professional development.

  • Team and company-wide events and activities designed to support collaboration, learning, and connection.

  • Remote work environment with opportunities to contribute to a distributed engineering organization.

  • An inclusive workplace committed to equal opportunity and reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process.