Software Engineering Technical Leader - Golang, Networking + Cloud Security | 12 to 16 yrs

As a Software Engineering Technical Leader, you will set technical direction and own the Agent Gateway end to end, from ideation and architecture through Golang development, cloud deployment, production operations, and customer support. You will lead a team, solve complex distributed-system and networking problems, and deliver secure, highly available services.

• Set technical direction, lead architecture and design reviews, mentor engineers, establish standards, and remain hands-on through implementation and production resolution.
• Design resilient control-plane and data-plane services with clear failure handling, scalability, consistency boundaries, capacity planning, and safe regional failover.
• Lead Envoy/H2O proxy and networking design across L4/L7 routing, DNS, TLS/mTLS, HTTP, HTTP/2, gRPC, load balancing, service discovery, and policy enforcement.
• Own delivery from requirements through validation, cloud deployment, support, and continuous improvement, including SLOs, observability, incidents, rollback, capacity, and disaster recovery.
• Guide secure AI-agent integration with MCP servers, LLM providers, and enterprise tool APIs, including identity, authorization, credential isolation, tenant boundaries, auditability, streaming, and tool execution.

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

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, including at least 4 years leading an engineering team or providing technical leadership for production services.

• Hands-on

and system-design experience for scalable distributed services, including concurrency, APIs, retries, timeouts, backpressure, idempotency, caching, and failure recovery.

• Hands-on experience with

including TCP/IP, DNS, TLS/mTLS, HTTP, HTTP/2, gRPC, load balancing, and troubleshooting.

• Production ownership experience across Linux, containers, AWS/Azure/GCP, observability, on-call response, incident management, customer support, safe deployments, rollback, and disaster recovery.

• Experience building network-security products using Envoy xDS, custom filters, H2O, API gateways, service meshes, or comparable high-performance proxies.
• Practical knowledge of LLM applications and MCP clients, servers, tools, resources, prompts, transports, streaming, authentication, authorization, and secure tool execution.
• Experience with Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing, load testing, and production traffic analysis.
• Familiarity with OAuth/OIDC, workload identity, secrets management, agent frameworks, LLM provider APIs, software supply-chain security, and agent-specific threats.

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