Principal Engineer/Envoy Specialist

Piper Companies is hiring for a Principal Engineer/Envoy Specialist that will be part of the API Gateways squad, you will be primarily responsible for building, enhancing, and maintaining the Envoy-based API Gateway . The API Gateway squad is looking to bring its usage of Envoy to the next level, increasing performance of the Gateways, increasing stability, and adding new capabilities to Envoy using Filters and by enhancing a custom External Processing sidecar to provide additional flexibility for API Producers. This person can sit in Raleigh, NC OR Dallas, TX OR Merrimack, MA

Responsibilities of the Principal Engineer/Envoy Specialist:

• Building, enhancing, and maintaining the Envoy-based API Gateway
• Adding new capabilities to Envoy using Filters and by enhancing a custom External Processing sidecar to provide additional flexibility for API Producers.
• Familiar with using Envoy but you will be the expert on how to configure and use it to align with best practices, while helping to develop the aforementioned capabilities.

Requirements for the Principal Engineer/Envoy Specialist:

• Strong background in C++
• Preferred Envoy contributor or extensive user (at minimum)
• Familiar with GoLang and/or Rust.
• Able to give best-practice advice on configuring and using Envoy. Use of the go-control-plane is highly recommended
• Expertise on Kubernetes.
• Performance testing experience

Compensation for the Principal Engineer/Envoy Specialist : $170,000 - $245,000 plus full comprehensive benefits package