$188,500 – $274,000
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What this role is
This Staff Engineer role leads technical strategy for Intuit's central traffic platform, which handles API Gateway and Service Mesh operations across all products. The position focuses on securing AI agent access through the MCP Gateway and automating traffic operations with AI agents, requiring deep expertise in distributed systems, Envoy/Istio, and the ability to influence across the organization without direct authority.
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What they ask for
Required
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Large-scale distributed systems in production
- Deep hands-on expertise with Envoy and/or Istio or equivalent service mesh/API gateway architectures
- Systems-level programming in Go and/or Java
- Experience designing authentication/authorization systems for high-throughput security-sensitive traffic
- Track record leading incident response and root-cause analysis for P1 production issues
- AWS networking and infrastructure experience
- Ability to lead technically without direct reports
Nice to have
- Direct experience building or operating infrastructure for AI agent traffic or MCP
- eBPF-based traffic capture or observability tooling
- WASM or Go-based Envoy extension development
- FMEA methodology, chaos engineering, or Game Day resiliency practices
- Experience operating on critical path platform teams with rigorous rollout discipline