Senior Software Engineer – Backend Engineer

• Take product ideas from 0 to 1 by scoping, designing, building, shipping, and owning them in production
• Build and maintain large-scale distributed systems for multi-cloud networking
• Use agentic workflows, LLM-powered development loops, and AI tooling to accelerate shipping and operations
• Design, build, and maintain APIs and microservices using Java/Spring, Go, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes
• Operate shipped systems through customer escalations, on-call, telemetry, and bug fixes
• Pick up and maintain existing services in the assigned area
• Help build Alkira’s programmable enterprise networking platform connecting clouds, sites, partners, data centers, and AI workloads

• B.S./M.S. (or equivalent) in CS, EE, or a related field
• 4–7 years of software engineering experience
• Experience taking products from zero to shipped and improving existing codebases
• Daily use of AI tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot, with an AI-native development workflow
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Hands-on Java/Spring and Go experience
• Knowledge of distributed systems
• REST API design experience
• Database schema design experience
• Multithreading experience
• Linux/kernel fluency
• Experience with container and Kubernetes deployment
• Security-first thinking for distributed, multi-tenant systems
• Product and customer empathy
• Ability to work across geographically distributed teams
• Ability to multitask and support multiple concurrent projects
• Networking background in BGP, SD-WAN, overlays, or cloud networking is a strong plus

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