Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer (Networking, Distributed Systems, Kubernetes, Control Plane) - 100% Remote

Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer (Networking, Distributed Systems, Kubernetes, Control Plane) - 100% Remote

Optomi, in partnership with a leading transportation and logistics organization, is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer to join a growing team that is building the next generation of its hybrid cloud infrastructure platform. This team is focused on modernizing legacy infrastructure while delivering cloud-like capabilities across compute, storage, and networking within private data centers.

The ideal candidate is a software engineer with deep networking expertise who understands how networking systems operate under the hood and can build the platforms, services, and automation that manage them at scale.

You will help design and develop networking infrastructure services, control planes, orchestration capabilities, and platform APIs that enable modern hybrid cloud operations.

Success in this role requires the ability to understand existing systems at a deep technical level, identify opportunities for modernization, and build scalable software solutions that improve reliability, automation, and operational efficiency.

What the Right Professional Will Enjoy!

• The opportunity to join a highly technical infrastructure engineering organization responsible for enterprise-wide platform services across networking, storage, compute, and operating systems!
• The opportunity to help build and modernize a next-generation hybrid cloud platform that delivers cloud-like capabilities within private data center environments!
• The opportunity to work alongside deeply technical engineers specializing in distributed systems, infrastructure software, platform engineering, and cloud-native technologies!
• The opportunity to influence architecture, engineering standards, and long-term infrastructure strategy across a large-scale enterprise environment!

Apply Today If Your Background Includes:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on infrastructure systems or platform engineering
• Deep expertise in networking concepts and architectures
• Strong understanding of routing, network control planes, and network management planes
• Experience building software systems within networking or infrastructure domains
• Experience designing and developing distributed systems
• Strong understanding of concurrency and multithreaded application design
• Experience building APIs, services, or platforms that manage infrastructure at scale
• Strong understanding of Linux-based systems
• Experience with infrastructure orchestration and automation frameworks
• Ability to analyze and modernize complex legacy infrastructure environments
• Experience with Kubernetes networking and platform internals
• Experience with software-defined networking (SDN)
• Experience with service mesh technologies
• Experience building control plane or orchestration software
• Experience working in private cloud or cloud-native platform environments
• Experience with network observability and performance monitoring systems
• Experience with Go, Java, Python, Rust, or C++
• Experience designing highly available and fault-tolerant distributed systems