Member of Technical Staff, Traffic Infrastructure

The role

You will own the traffic layer behind the generative AI platform, including proxies, load balancers, service mesh, and routing systems. You will architect scalable networking services and partner with ML, product, and platform teams to set technical direction.

What you will do

• Architect and build scalable, fault-tolerant traffic and networking services
• Lead technical design discussions and mentor other engineers
• Establish best practices for operating large-scale infrastructure
• Drive network optimization including cost reduction and performance tuning
• Evaluate and integrate cloud-native and open-source technologies
• Own systems end to end from design through deployment and observability
• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
• 5+ years of experience building backend or network infrastructure in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Strong software development skills in languages such as Go, C++, Rust, Java, or Python
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and networking fundamentals, including performance optimization
• Full product lifecycle ownership, from design through implementation to production

Nice to have

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science or a related field
• Hands-on experience with traffic or edge engineering, service mesh, or cloud networking (e.g., Envoy, Istio, DPDK)
• Deep Kubernetes experience, including ingress, network policy, and custom controllers
• Track record of improving performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency on high-throughput systems
• Experience leading projects across teams and coaching distributed engineers

About the company

Fireworks is a platform for specialized intelligence that enables companies to build, train, and serve AI models. It is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion.