R&D Distinguished Software Engineer

Please Note: 1. If you are a first time user, please create your candidate login account before you apply for a job. (Click Sign In > Create Account) 2. If you already have a Candidate Account, please Sign-In before you apply. Job Description: Job Description Join the Avi Engineering team as a Distinguished Engineer to deliver Load balancing and Security solutions for the AI Era. The team has a storied history of innovation and an extensive patent portfolio. We foster a culture of intellectual curiosity turning creative ideas into tangible solutions. You’ll fit right in if you're someone who adopts a first-principles approach to problem-solving, love deep-diving into distributed systems to optimize scale and performance, and enjoy the challenge of making data flow seamlessly at a massive scale. This on-site position is based in Palo Alto, California. You will join a global, cross-border team of talented engineers operating across India, Germany, and the USA. Key Responsibilities As a Distinguished Engineer, you will be architecting and building high-performance, cloud-scale load balancing and security solutions. You will play a critical role in envisioning and delivering highly resilient, microservices-based solutions in the emerging world of AI based workloads. Architectural Leadership: Lead the design and implementation of Load balancing and Security solutions for AI workloads, including but not limited to AI agents, LLMs, and Gateways. Scale & Performance: Build and optimize data pipelines capable of handling millions of records, ensuring the platform scales elastically in AI environments. Tech Stack Orchestration: Leverage a sophisticated stack to build durable, stateful workflows to manage complex backend processes. Data Strategy: Design schemas and optimize queries across a polyglot persistence layer (OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Neo4j) to provide time sensitive insights to customers. Mentorship: Act as a key technical leader by conducting deep-dive code reviews, driving engineering best practices, and mentoring junior engineers. Required Skills & Experience Professional Experience Education: BS/MS/PhD in Engineering Computer Science or a related technical field. Experience : Bachelors with 20+ years; Masters with 18+ years; PhD with 15+ years of related experience Proven experience building complex highly distributed systems Proven experience leading the end-to-end lifecycle of a product, from initial design to production deployment and maintenance. Programming Proficiency Expert Level (GoLang & Python): Deep mastery of Go (concurrency, profiling, and performance tuning) and Python (data manipulation and backend services). Moderate Level (C++): Ability to maintain and optimize performance-critical components or interface with lower-level system libraries. Cloud-Native Architecture & API Design Microservices at Scale: Proven experience designing and delivering production-grade…