Senior Software Engineer – CDN & Go

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San Francisco / $190000 - $240000 annum

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Salary
SALARY:

$190000 - $240000

Location

LOCATION

San Francisco

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Senior Software Engineer - Go (CDN and Distributed Systems)

Remote, US or Canada

$190-204k base + RSUs

A leading cloud infrastructure company is hiring a Senior Software Engineer with strong Go and distributed systems experience to help build and scale its next generation global CDN. This team operates at massive scale, handling billions of requests per day and powering some of the fastest, most reliable experiences on the web.

The Role

You will design and build high performance distributed systems that make the internet faster and more resilient. As part of the CDN Infrastructure group, you will work on projects such as:

  • Evolving an internal CDN into a production ready customer platform
  • Designing systems that support safe, incremental customer migration
  • Scaling redirect handling from thousands to billions of requests
  • Implementing HTTP/3 and exploring post quantum cryptography
  • Driving performance improvements across the edge network

This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy deep technical challenges and want to influence how modern web infrastructure operates at global scale.

What We Are Looking For

  • Strong experience with distributed systems, CDN, caching, or networking infrastructure
  • Production Go experience. C and C plus plus backgrounds transfer well
  • Solid understanding of the HTTP layer and cloud networking
  • Experience operating systems at scale in a cloud or infra environment
  • Bonus: Linux tuning, performance optimization, or open source work

CONTACT

Joshua Poore

Associate Director

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