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Compensation: 150000 USD – 165000 USD / Year
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Overview:
Our client will be hiring a Senior Software Engineer with a background in Network Engineering. This role is part of the Agile/Scrum SaaS Solutions Engineering team and helps support the Engineering team's transition to an AWS cloud-native environment. This role contributes primarily to an AWS cloud-based central authentication platform. Network device provisioning experience is required, MikroTik devices preferred.
This position reports to the Engineering Manager. 100% REMOTE (US only)
Responsibilities:
- Configure, manage, and troubleshoot MikroTik RouterOS environments, including scripting, APIs, and policy enforcement
- Architect, implement, and maintain software systems that interact with or control network infrastructure
- Perform advanced network protocol integration, especially focused on RADIUS, 802.1X, and related AAA technologies
- Develop automation tools and network services that streamline configuration, authentication, and device lifecycle management
- Design, build, and maintain efficient, security-hardened containerized services optimized for resource-constrained environments and modern Linux-based infrastructure
- Collaborates with other development, product management and UX team members to turn user stories into performant, scalable capabilities, features, services, and applications within the ecosystem
- Partners with team members across functions to solve architectural and code-design challenges
- Stays informed about service design and code best practices and champions decisions that will scale and make a difference in the long term
- Works within Agile methodology with two-week sprints
- Identifies and incorporates security requirements in the software development lifecycle process
- Participates in security reviews as needed to facilitate technical discovery
- Works in a variety of languages and frameworks, from legacy .NET, C# and SQL to more modern Linux, Python and Elasticsearch
Qualifications:
- 10 years of software engineering experience, ideally in network-focused roles
- Network device provisioning experience is required – MikroTik preferred
- Deep understanding of RADIUS, AAA workflows, 802.1X, EAP methods, and certificate-based authentication
- Solid understanding of network fundamentals: routing, switching, VLANs, firewalling, DHCP, DNS, VPNs, etc.
- Experience with RESTful API design and development
- Experience in complex AWS systems with an emphasis on Serverless (i.e. not using servers and containers to solve all problems)
Preferred:
- Experience working with MikroTik devices, RouterOS scripting, API integration, and configuration automation
- Preferred Linux knowledge and comfort in CLI-driven environments
- Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure-as-Code (CloudFormation preferred)
- Strong desire to help a successful company scale existing cloud-based services while also being a significant contributor to the development of new products
- Proven experience shipping product as part of an Agile team
- Experience building scalable cloud services