Intuit
Staff Software Engineer, Traffic
$188K–$255K
San Diego, California +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Location
- San Diego, California
Oakland, California
Mountain View, California
Charlotte, North Carolina
About the job
Owns the technical direction and long-term health of a domain in Credit Karma’s service mesh and edge infrastructure, from design through production rollout.
What you'll do
- Lead technical design and implementation of complex infrastructure systems, including rollout and operational health.
- Set engineering and operational best practices, coordinate cross-team work, and address ambiguous technical problems.
- Coach engineers through reviews, design feedback, and mentorship.
What they ask for
- End-to-end ownership of a domain or system in a high-traffic production environment.
- Deep experience building and owning production systems code, with fluency in systems patterns such as concurrency models and event loops.
- Experience operating large-scale distributed systems in production using Kubernetes, Nomad, ECS, or comparable orchestration.
- Track record of establishing engineering best practices, coaching engineers, and collaborating with stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Experience across infrastructure domains; strong production debugging and reliability engineering skills.
- Familiarity with Istio, Envoy, or Kubernetes operator patterns; open-source contributions, conference talks, or published writing.
Pay
San Diego $188,500 - $255,000 (base salary)
Tools
Go, Kubernetes, Nomad, ECS, Istio, Envoy
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