Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Service Mesh)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Service Mesh): Designing and managing service mesh infrastructure to support a large-scale microservices architecture with an accent on service-to-service connectivity, security, and observability. Focus on implementing traffic management, mTLS policies, and performance tuning for abstractions used by hundreds of engineering teams.

Location: Onsite in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Company

hirify.global is Southeast Asia's leading superapp, providing a wide range of services including food delivery, financial management, and transportation.

What you will do

• Architect, deploy, and manage service mesh infrastructure using Istio, Linkerd, Consul, or AWS App Mesh.
• Implement and manage service discovery, load-balancing, traffic management, and observability.
• Ensure secure inter-service communication using mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) policies and access control.
• Collaborate with development teams to analyze and implement service communication needs.
• Respond to service interruptions, perform capacity planning, and conduct performance tuning.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of DevOps practices and monitor service operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience managing microservices architecture.
• Proficiency in Go, Java, or Python.
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Familiarity with network protocols including HTTP, TCP/IP, and gRPC.
• Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd, or Consul.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical and Term Life Insurance.
• hirify.globalFlex: customizable benefits package tailored to individual needs.
• Parental and Birthday leave.
• Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave.
• hirify.globalber Assistance Programme for confidential personal and professional support.