Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Location: Nashville, TN, United States

We are seeking a strong Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure to help build the next generation of our L7 Proxy platform. The platform powers critical application traffic through reliable, secure, and high-performance networking services.

In this hands-on individual contributor role, you will work across both the Control Plane and Data Plane, designing and delivering capabilities that span APIs, configuration management, distributed workflows, traffic processing, and runtime performance. You should bring depth in systems engineering and the versatility to move across components, learn unfamiliar technologies, and solve problems end to end.

Our team is leading a charter in AI-driven platform development. You will help shape how we use AI to design, build, test, and operate production systems, while applying rigorous engineering judgment to correctness, security, reliability, and maintainability.

This role is suited to an engineer who combines strong coding skills with architectural judgment, takes ownership of complex problems, and raises the technical quality of the team through implementation, collaboration, and mentorship.

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Leads design and development of scalable, elastic distributed systems for the OCI Layer 7 platform.