Senior System Engineer (CloudGate)

Team: IT

Location: Spain

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities:

As a Senior System Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and improving core networking services that support large-scale cloud infrastructure. You will work on high-performance systems, ensuring reliability, scalability, and efficiency while collaborating with engineers across different technical domains.

• Develop and maintain data plane components for advanced cloud network services.
• Design and implement reliable, high-performance software solutions for large-scale infrastructure.
• Improve service scalability, performance, and reliability through architectural enhancements and optimization.
• Develop new service functionality, including support for additional endpoints and improved health-check mechanisms.
• Optimize interactions between distributed services within a microservice-based control plane architecture.
• Automate complex cross-service workflows to improve operational efficiency.
• Perform load testing and analyze system behavior under high-traffic conditions.
• Contribute to the evolution of cloud networking technologies, including connectivity, traffic delivery, and network management solutions.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate is an experienced systems engineer with strong software development skills and a passion for building reliable, high-performance infrastructure. You should have a solid understanding of networking concepts and be comfortable working with complex distributed systems.

• Proven experience writing reliable, high-performance production code.
• Strong programming skills in C, with willingness and ability to learn Go and C++.
• Experience with network traffic routing and network infrastructure concepts.
• Understanding of distributed systems, cloud environments, and service-oriented architectures.
• Ability to analyze complex technical problems and develop scalable solutions.
• Strong problem-solving skills with attention to performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Experience with VPP, DPDK, or the Linux kernel networking subsystem is a plus.
• Knowledge of virtual networks, overlays, SDN, NFV, DPI, network protocols, routing, tunneling, BGP, or MPLS is considered an advantage.
• Ability to successfully complete technical coding assessments as part of the recruitment process.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation package.
• Career development opportunities with access to continuous learning.
• High level of ownership and flexibility in your work.
• Opportunity to work on impactful cloud infrastructure projects supporting AI innovation.
• Collaborative environment with talented international engineering teams.
• Exposure to cutting-edge technologies across cloud computing, networking, and artificial intelligence.
• Opportunity to contribute to solutions shaping the future of AI infrastructure.
• Inclusive and diverse workplace culture focused on trust, growth, and meaningful impact.