🚀Software Engineer – Edge Traffic & Security Platforms🚀
📈💰 Salary: €77,000 per annum📍 Dublin ⏳ 9-Month Contract
Looking to work on high-impact infrastructure handling mission-critical traffic for hundreds of millions of global users securely?
🌐 A leading global technology platform based in Dublin is looking for a senior-level Software Engineer for an immediate 9-month contract.In this role, you aren’t just maintaining a system—you will actively optimize security platforms, burn down architectural debt, and migrate critical legacy infrastructure alongside a world-class team.
🛠️ Tech Stack: Envoy, eBPF, HAProxy, Rust, Go, C++
💻 Key Responsibilities:
🛠️ Platform Engineering: Design, deploy, and optimize edge traffic security platforms built over Envoy, HAProxy, IPVS, eBPF, and WAF architectures to maximize global traffic flow.
🔄 Legacy Migration: Safely migrate large-scale, critical legacy systems and codebases to modern infrastructure without impacting live production traffic.
📉 Operational Excellence: Eliminate operational and incident-action-item (Incident-AI) backlogs by addressing root causes rather than applying quick patches.
📚 Support & Hygiene: Triage technical issues in the teams Slack channels while continuously refining production runbooks and engineering documentation.
🎯 Required Skills & Qualifications
🎓 Education: BA/BS degree or higher in Computer Science, a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
⚙️ Core Experience:
5+ years of software design and development experience, with a strong focus on algorithm-related solutions.
⌨️ Programming Languages: 5+ years of experience programming in Go, Rust, C, or C++.
🌐 Distributed Systems & Networking: Hands-on experience with large-scale distributed systems and core L4 to L7 networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, eBPF).
🔀 Migration Strategy: Proven experience managing large-scale migrations of live-production legacy infrastructure.
🔄 Experience with open-source traffic infrastructure software (Envoy, HAProxy, Apache Traffic Server).
🛡️ Working knowledge of WAF implementations (e.g., Coraza, ModSecurity), DDoS mitigation engines, rate-limiting frameworks, and TLS/mTLS termination at scale.
📡 Exposure to traffic delivery systems across CDNs, load balancers, and routing matrices.
📩 How to Apply
Please email your CV & Cover Letter directly to [email protected] with the subject line
🚀Software Engineer – Edge Traffic & Security Platforms — Dublin 🚀
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