Staff Software Developer, BlueCat

• We are seeking a highly technical, influential, and hands-on staff-level engineer with exceptional leadership, communication, and collaboration skills
• 10+ years of software development experience
• Demonstrated deep and diverse engineering background with a history of building and operating modern distributed systems
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• High proficiency with software development best practices, coding standards, and design patterns
• Ability to decompose ambiguous, large-scale problems into clear architectural options
• A pragmatic decision-maker who balances technical quality with delivery and real-world constraints
• You have experience designing systems to tolerate real-world failure modes—including network partitions, cascading failures, data inconsistencies, performance regressions, resource exhaustion, and unexpected traffic patterns
• You proactively build guardrails, automation, telemetry, and operational workflows to minimize downtime and accelerate recovery
• You embrace observability, chaos testing, and “designing for failure” as foundational engineering principles
• You think holistically about reliability: from architecture and code paths to CI/CD, deployment strategies, and long-term operability
• You collaborate effectively with product, security, SRE, and infrastructure groups to define technical requirements and ensure secure-by-default architectures
• Experience establishing secure development methodologies and incorporating them into daily engineering practice
• Experience building high-performance, safe, and reliable systems using Rust
• Familiarity with async Rust ecosystems, ownership models, concurrency patterns, and performance tuning
• Mastery of protocols such as TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, HTTP/S, and related standards
• Ability to diagnose and reason about network interactions, latency, performance, and system behavior at multiple layers of the stack
• Many of our services are built and deployed as Docker-based containers
• Familiarity with containerization fundamentals, image construction, runtime behavior, security considerations, and debugging containerized workloads
• Ability to design services and development workflows that fit naturally into container-based ecosystems
• If you share our enthusiasm for the future of our company and are eager to contribute to our vibrant workplace, we look forward to receiving your application!

Desirable

• We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join our growing Advanced DDI team at BlueCat
• In this role, you will help define our long-term technical direction, drive architectural evolution, and lead complex, cross-team initiatives as we build the BlueCat Cloud Platform, a critical system delivering enterprise-grade DNS, DHCP, and IPAM (DDI) solutions to global customers
• This is a unique opportunity to operate at scale, shape the future of our platform, and raise the technical bar across engineering
• You will work on systems where safety, reliability, and performance are paramount, and where your ability to anticipate complexity and simplify the path forward will have lasting impact