Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Solo.io is a company that empowers teams to build and scale their AI infrastructure using cloud-native technology. They are seeking a Senior AI Software Engineer to contribute to their cloud networking stack and AI products, working on open-source projects and collaborating with customers to enhance the usability of complex technology.
Responsibilities
- Deliver high-quality solutions to the complex technical problems our customers are facing
- Manage and optimize our APIs within the ever-evolving landscape of cloud-native environments, maintaining a seamless user experience
- Transform ambiguous requirements into actionable tasks, focusing on high-impact deliverables that provide the most value for our users
- Challenge the status quo by proposing ambitious and innovative solutions, driving our product forward
- Introduce and uphold best practices to ensure the health and maintainability of our codebase
- Act as a mentor and guide, offering constructive feedback during code and design reviews to foster growth within the team
- Participate in the hiring process, helping identify and recruit top talent so that our engineering team can continue to scale successfully
Skills
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
- 2+ years working with Containers, Kubernetes, and Golang
- Experienced in building server side software in production and recognizes the challenges, complexities and tradeoffs to be made when building and deploying new systems to production
- Istio or other service mesh platforms
- Worked directly on a proxy before, such as Envoy Proxy
- Having built k8s controllers and operators
- Worked with Agentic frameworks and protocols such as, ADK, MCP, A2A
- Experience working with GlooShot
- Implemented or used the kubernetes gateway API
Company Overview
Solo.io delivers cloud-native API and service mesh solutions, built on Istio and Envoy, to secure and scale apps across any environment. It was founded in 2017, and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.solo.io.