Senior Software Engineer - Core Team - San Jose, CA

Job Core Responsibilities

• Understand large, evolving codebases quickly and contribute meaningfully within weeks
• Design, build, and operate services in a microservice and distributed systems environment
• Diagnose and resolve production issues across services, databases, message queues, and LLM integrations
• Drive architectural improvements — scalability, reliability, observability, and developer experience
• Design and develop AI agents that run natively in our infrastructure — owning architecture, tool integration, reliability, and performance
• Collaborate with other engineers and use AI coding agents effectively to accelerate delivery

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) for production services
• Solid experience designing and operating microservices and distributed systems at scale
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka and Docker
• Background in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, or edge computing
• Track record of debugging hard problems in production distributed environments
• Hands-on experience using coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, or similar) as part of your workflow — and a genuine interest in pushing what they can do
• Clear written and verbal communication; works well asynchronously

Pay & Benefits

At ZEDEDA, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. Base pay is determined by considering your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. For this role the base pay range is $150,000 - $180,000.