Cloud Software Engineer - DevOps

About the role

Headquartered in the United States, TP-Link Systems Inc. is a global provider of reliable networking devices and smart home products, consistently ranked as the world’s top provider of Wi-Fi devices. The company is committed to delivering innovative products that enhance people’s lives through faster, more reliable connectivity. With a commitment to excellence, TP-Link serves customers in over 170 countries and continues to grow its global footprint. We believe technology changes the world for the better!

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and continuously improve a unified cloud-native CI/CD platform to provide standardized integration, delivery, and release capabilities for the company’s microservice engineering teams.
• Build and enhance DevOps platform capabilities, and drive the automation and platformization of key workflows such as build, test, release, deployment, and rollback.
• Develop and engineer platform capabilities based on toolchains such as Jenkins and Argo Workflows to improve engineering efficiency, process consistency, and maintainability.
• Provide onboarding and integration support for microservice teams using the CI/CD platform, including pipeline setup, template adoption, troubleshooting, and best practice enablement.
• Contribute to the broader cloud-native engineering platform by integrating the CI/CD platform with Kubernetes, service governance, logging, monitoring, and source code management systems.
• Continuously improve the DevOps engineering ecosystem by enhancing platform reliability, scalability, usability, and automation maturity.
• Collaborate closely with infrastructure, engineering, QA, and operations teams to standardize software delivery workflows and improve overall engineering productivity.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and best practices in cloud-native DevOps, and drive continuous evolution of the platform based on business and engineering needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience in DevOps platform development, developer productivity platforms, infrastructure platforms, or related areas.
• Hands-on AWS experience is required, with a solid understanding of cloud infrastructure and software delivery workflows in cloud-native environments.
• Development experience with CI/CD tools or platforms such as Jenkins and Argo Workflows is required, beyond basic day-to-day usage.
• Strong automation mindset and engineering ability, with the initiative to drive workflow automation, platformization, and standardization.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, and Bash, with solid software development and scripting skills.
• Familiarity with cloud-native technologies including Kubernetes and Istio, as well as logging and monitoring systems such as Loki, ELK, Prometheus, and VictoriaMetrics.
• Familiarity with Git and related source code management platforms such as Gitea, and a good understanding of version control, branching strategies, and CI/CD integration.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to independently troubleshoot platform integration issues, pipeline execution problems, and automation workflow failures.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with other public cloud platforms such as Azure or GCP.
• Experience building developer productivity platforms, unified delivery platforms, or large-scale CI/CD platforms.
• Familiarity with engineering practices such as microservice delivery workflows, GitOps, canary release, and rollback mechanisms.
• Proficiency in Chinese in addition to English.

Benefits

• Salary range: $125,000 - 160,000
• Free snacks and drinks
• Full-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (partial coverage for dependents)
• Contributions to 401k funds
• Bi-annual reviews, and annual pay increases
• Health and wellness benefits, including free gym membership
• Quarterly team-building events

Pay

Salary range: $125,000 - 160,000

Schedule

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Skills

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Benefits

• Free snacks and drinks
• Full-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (partial coverage for dependents)
• Contributions to 401k funds
• Bi-annual reviews, and annual pay increases
• Health and wellness benefits, including free gym membership
• Quarterly team-building events

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience in DevOps platform development, developer productivity platforms, infrastructure platforms, or related areas.
• Hands-on AWS experience is required, with a solid understanding of cloud infrastructure and software delivery workflows in cloud-native environments.
• Development experience with CI/CD tools or platforms such as Jenkins and Argo Workflows is required, beyond basic day-to-day usage.
• Strong automation mindset and engineering ability, with the initiative to drive workflow automation, platformization, and standardization.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, and Bash, with solid software development and scripting skills.
• Familiarity with cloud-native technologies including Kubernetes and Istio, as well as logging and monitoring systems such as Loki, ELK, Prometheus, and VictoriaMetrics.
• Familiarity with Git and related source code management platforms such as Gitea, and a good understanding of version control, branching strategies, and CI/CD integration.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to independently troubleshoot platform integration issues, pipeline execution problems, and automation workflow failures.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.