Peregrine
Staff Software Engineer, Traffic
$200K–$275K
Washington DC +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Apr 22, 2026
- Location
- Washington DC
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Experience
- 9+ years in software, infrastructure, or network engineering roles, focused on building and operating systems at scale.
About the job
Designs and builds software-defined networking capabilities for secure, reliable, scalable communication across Peregrine’s cloud, Kubernetes, and customer environments.
What you'll do
- Build networking platform capabilities for service communication, routing, traffic management, segmentation, and observability.
- Design systems for safe configuration, policy enforcement, traffic rollout, and failure recovery; improve reliability and scalability.
- Lead debugging of complex connectivity issues and drive networking architecture and standards across teams.
What they ask for
- Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or similar, with production systems or services experience.
- Deep networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, routing, DNS, load balancing, NAT, and VPNs.
- Experience with cloud and Kubernetes networking and with distributed systems or networking infrastructure.
- Ability to drive technical direction and make architectural decisions across teams; based near an SF, DC, or NYC office and excited to work in-office.
Nice to have
- Service mesh or CNI experience, such as Istio or Cilium.
Pay
$200,000 — $275,000 USD (annual salary)
Tools
Python, Go, TCP/IP, Kubernetes, VPCs, Istio, Cilium
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