Whatnot
Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure Traffic
$207K–$230K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 26, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA - Experience
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience; 3+ years of hands-on experience with Istio and Envoy.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Own and improve Whatnot’s traffic infrastructure, making request routing, connectivity, service networking, and internal access reliable, secure, observable, and easy for product engineers to use.
What you'll do
- Build controllers, extensions, and automation for traffic infrastructure, including edge routing, private connectivity, service proxy and mesh, DNS, TLS, and internal access.
- Instrument network request paths and integrate observability signals with engineering tools to speed up diagnosis.
- Design for network failures and reduce risk through safe-change tooling and rehearsed failover.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience; preferably running networks behind high-traffic applications.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with Istio and Envoy, including writing custom Envoy extensions.
- Deep Kubernetes networking knowledge and strong fundamentals in DNS, TLS, TCP, and routing.
Nice to have
- Experience operating a CDN at scale, preferably Cloudflare.
- Deep modern cloud networking experience, particularly AWS, including large-scale VPC topology.
Pay
$207K - $230K (USD, base salary)
Tools
Istio, Envoy, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, AWS, DNS, TLS, TCP
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