Senior Cloud Software Engineer - Infra Compute & Network

TP-Link Systems Inc.

$150K — $200K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field required.
  • 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure or platform engineering.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services mandatory.
  • Deep expertise in Kubernetes and its ecosystem components preferred.
  • Proven experience managing Istio service mesh in production environments required.
  • Strong understanding of cloud-native traffic management and networking.
  • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Design and evolve a unified cloud-native compute and network platform for microservices.
  • Build and operate Kubernetes-based compute orchestration platforms and components.
  • Implement AWS compute and network infrastructure capabilities like VPC and EC2.
  • Enhance traffic management capabilities for large-scale microservice environments.
  • Lead architecture and deployment of Istio service mesh in production.
  • Collaborate with engineering and architecture teams to optimize infrastructure capabilities.
  • Drive technical evolution and standards in cloud-native compute and networking.

Benefits

  • Free snacks and drinks
  • Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401k fund contributions
  • Bi-annual review and annual pay increases
  • Health and wellness benefits, including gym membership
  • Quarterly team-building events
Full Job Description
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Design, build, and continuously evolve a unified cloud-native compute and network platform that provides consistent access, runtime, and traffic management capabilities for all company microservices.
  • Build, optimize, and operate Kubernetes-based compute orchestration platforms and related ecosystem components, including but not limited to HPA, VPA, Cluster Autoscaler, and CoreDNS.
  • Design and implement compute and network infrastructure capabilities on AWS, including VPC, Subnet, NAT, VPN, dedicated connectivity, and integration with EC2 and serverless platforms.
  • Build and enhance traffic management capabilities for large-scale microservice environments, including service mesh, gateways, load balancers, CDN, and global acceleration.
  • Lead the architecture, deployment, governance, performance optimization, and reliability assurance of large-scale Istio service mesh in production environments to support service discovery, traffic routing, resilience, and secure service-to-service communication.
  • Collaborate closely with application engineering, architecture, and platform teams to standardize infrastructure capabilities and improve scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
  • Drive technical evolution and best practices in cloud-native compute and networking, and contribute to the long-term development of the company's infrastructure platform.

Requirements

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
  • 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or related areas.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS is required, with solid practical knowledge of cloud compute and networking services.
  • Deep expertise in Kubernetes, including cluster architecture, workload orchestration, networking, autoscaling, and ecosystem components; Kubernetes certifications such as CKA or CKS, or equivalent proven expertise, are strongly preferred.
  • Proven experience managing large-scale Istio service mesh in production environments is required.
  • Strong understanding of cloud-native traffic management and networking, including gateways, load balancers, service-to-service communication, CDN, and global traffic routing.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to independently troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and network issues in distributed systems.
  • Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Experience with other public cloud platforms such as Azure or GCP.
  • Experience building compute and network platforms in multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments.
  • Experience building shared infrastructure platforms or standardized platform capabilities for largescale microservice architectures.

Benefits

Salary range: $150,000 - 200,000
  • Free snacks and drinks
  • Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (partial coverage for dependents)
  • Contributions to 401k funds
  • Bi-annual reviews, and annual pay increases
  • Health and wellness benefits, including free gym membership
  • Quarterly team-building events


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