Senior Software Engineer, Cloud

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<h3><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ABOUT THE ROLE</span></h3> <div> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="37:1-37:205;3406-3610"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We're looking for a <strong>Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Infrastructure) </strong>for the VTEX Network team ,the core connective tissue of our cloud platform: CDN, Cloud Connectivity, Ingress, DNS, and Service Mesh.</span></p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="39:1-39:454;3612-4065"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You'll take on one of our hardest engineering challenges: evolving our Service Mesh. Today VTEX runs a custom, highly performant router (built in .NET) that acts as our service mesh, processing millions of requests per second as the backbone for every VTEX application. Your mission is to help evolve this mission-critical infrastructure toward a market-standard stack (like Istio) with zero downtime and the reliability thousands of stores depend on.</span></p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="41:1-41:167;4067-4233"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This sits at the deep intersection of software engineering and scalable infrastructure, and it rewards real care for performance, resilience, and system architecture.</span></p> </div> <h3><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ABOUT THE TEAM</span></h3> <div> <div> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Cloud Network team ensures the reliability, scalability, and performance of the platform that powers thousands of stores worldwide. As part of a recent transformation, we're building a new generation of infrastructure systems: Service Mesh, networking, and compute layers. Our goal is a platform where infrastructure complexity is abstracted away, so engineers move faster without trading off reliability or performance.</span></p> <h3><span style="font-size: 14pt;">WHAT YOU WILL DO</span></h3> <ul> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-sourcepos="47:1-47:123;4702-4824"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Drive the architectural evolution from our custom routing layer to a modern, market-standard Service Mesh (e.g., Istio);</span></li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-sourcepos="48:1-48:115;4825-4939"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Design, build, and maintain network components that sustain millions of requests per second at very low latency;</span></li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-sourcepos="49:1-49:143;4940-5082"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Keep VTEX's core network services (Ingress, DNS, Service Mesh, CDN) continuously available and resilient for thousands of stores globally;</span></li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-sourcepos="50:1-50:124;5083-5206"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Apply deep service-design principles to build scalable, robust, maintainable backend services and infrastructure tooling;</span></li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-sourcepos="51:1-51:202;5207-5408"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Use AI as a daily multiplier (for development, refactoring legacy internals, testing, and documentation) while exercising judgment about where it does and doesn't belong in critical infrastructure;</span></li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-sourcepos="52:1-52:140;5409-5548"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Raise the team's bar: mentor other engineers, document for both technical and non-technical audiences, and take an active part in hiring.</span></li> </ul> </div> <div> <h3><span style="font-size: 14pt;">WHO YOU ARE</span></h3> </div> </div> <ul> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-sourcepos="55:1-55:118;5566-5683"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A strong backend/platform engineer with deep, hands-on experience operating and evolving Kubernetes infrastructure;</span></li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-sourcepos="56:1-56:176;5684-5859"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You've designed and run systems for mission-critical, high-throughput environments (millions of requests per second), and you're at home troubleshooting them under pressure;</span></li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-sourcepos="57:1-57:153;5860-6012"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You know service design and distributed systems well, including networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, proxies) and microservices communication;</span></li> <li…