Senior Software Engineer – Go / Rust | Cloud Networking | AI Infrastructure

Senior Software Engineer – Go / Rust \| Cloud Networking \| AI Infrastructure

Bay Area, CA (Hybrid)

I'm partnered with an early-stage, venture-backed startup that's building foundational infrastructure for the next generation of AI systems.

This isn't another LLM application or AI wrapper. The team is solving hard distributed systems problems around cloud networking, identity, trust, and secure communication between autonomous AI agents.

If you enjoy building infrastructure rather than consuming it, this is the type of engineering challenge that's difficult to find.

What You'll Work On

• Build high-performance networking services in

Go

and

Rust

• Design cloud-native control planes and distributed systems
• Develop Layer 7 networking, proxy, and policy enforcement technologies
• Build secure communication and identity frameworks for AI-native environments
• Work deeply with Kubernetes, cloud networking, and multi-cloud infrastructure
• Help shape the architecture of a product being built from the ground up

What They're Looking For

• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Production experience with

Go or Rust

(both is a plus)

• Experience building cloud infrastructure, networking platforms, or distributed systems
• Familiarity with technologies such as Kubernetes, Envoy, service meshes, proxies, gateways, or cloud networking
• Engineers who enjoy solving low-level systems problems and building highly scalable platforms

Bonus Experience

• Layer 7 networking
• Data plane / control plane development
• eBPF
• Cilium, Istio, Envoy, NGINX
• Identity or Zero Trust systems
• AWS, GCP, or Azure networking

This is an opportunity to join an experienced engineering team early and help define infrastructure that's purpose-built for AI-native applications—not retrofit for them.

Location:

Bay Area (Hybrid)