Senior Software Engineer

We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build and evolve the Gateway, the edge enforcement and routing component of our AI-driven Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) platform.

The Gateway is central to the architecture, responsible for real-time policy enforcement, DNS aliasing, and risk-aware access control across multi-tenant environments.
You’ll design and develop secure, high-performance, distributed systems that make the overlay network resilient, intelligent, and autonomous — whether deployed on-prem, in the cloud, or at the edge.

Responsibilities

• Design and build services powering Gateway nodes — including DNS proxy, firewall rule orchestration, policy enforcement, and device posture validation.

• Collaborate with the Controller (back-end) and AI teams to enable adaptive, AI-driven access policies.

• Engineer and optimize real-time communication (gRPC/REST/WebSockets) between Gateways, Connectors, and the Controller.

• Develop observability and telemetry pipelines for Gateway nodes — logs, metrics, traces.

• Contribute to the Gateway clustering model, ensuring scale-out routing, load balancing, and fault tolerance.

• Collaborate closely with the Architects and DevOps team to align with CipherScale’s reference architecture and deployment blueprints.

• Participate in design reviews, architecture discussions, and end-to-end testing (performance, resilience, and compliance).

• Responsible for Quality of the Code - Write and maintain unit, integration, end-to-end, performance tests using AI, scripts, and code quality check tools;

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, designing and deploying distributed systems at scale.

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Go (Golang), including concurrency, memory management, networking, and performance tuning.

• Deep understanding of network-level protocols and enforcement (TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, TLS, iptables/nftables, conntrack).

• Proven experience building multi-tenant, security-sensitive systems with strict SLA and HA requirements.

• Familiarity with authN/authZ protocols (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, SMAL, Certificates) and risk-based access control.

• Experience building and managing systems using Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Strong understanding of observability patterns — metrics, distributed tracing, and log pipelines.

• Proven ability to work cross-functionally with architecture, AI, and infrastructure teams in a remote-first and distributed environment.

Nice to Have

• Previous experience with NodeJS, Typescript, Javascript

• Background in VPN technologies, access management, or cybersecurity

• Experience with policy engines (e.g., OPA, Cedar)

• Familiarity with Cloudflare (e.g., Workers, DNS, WAF)

• Exposure to