Software Engineer - Data Collection

Key Responsibilities

• Build and optimize data collection agents and solutions to extract API traffic, application logs, performance metrics, and other relevant data from distributed systems and services.
• Leverage tools like eBPF, API gateways, traffic mirroring, language-specific agents, and other advanced instrumentation methods to gather real-time data from applications and microservices.
• Design and implement highly scalable, reliable, and performant data collection pipelines that can handle large volumes of traffic and data across diverse environments (cloud, on-premise, hybrid).
• Work closely with engineering, product, and security teams to ensure the data collection solutions meet the needs of Traceable’s platform and customer requirements.
• Continuously improve the accuracy, quality, and efficiency of data collection capabilities, leveraging eBPF. Optimize data extraction and processing for speed, scale, and reliability.
• Develop new features such as bot or ML based protection, improving existing solutions, and solving complex problems that drive innovation in the Traceable Platform.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science

4-6 years of experience as a software engineer, with strong programming skills in go/cpp/java

Strong Data Structures, Algorithms and problem solving skills

Exceptional Coding Skills

Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Ability to work independently with minimal supervision

Experience with writing policies for API Gateways/Load balancer will be plus.

Prior experience of contributing to open source projects would be a plus.

Moderate experience of networking stack (TCP, UDP, L2/L3 layers, L4)

Moderate experience of various protocols: SSL, TLS v1.2 TLS v.13,  HTTP1, HTTP2, HTTP3, gRPC

Hands on experience in networking devices (F5 BigIP, Citrix ADC, Avi, Arista etc) will be a big plus

Languages: Golang, C/C++, Java, JavaScript

Moderate experience  of Linux networking

Strong system fundamental & experience (process, cpu, memory, containers, cgroups, filesystem)

Good experience in kubernetes, AWS