Alkira is reinventing networking for the AI era by building a programmable platform to connect, secure, and operate every cloud, site, partner, data center, and AI workload. As a Software Engineer - Backend Engineer, you will own products from the blank page to production, building net-new capabilities and maintaining the distributed systems behind Alkira's CSX (Cloud Services Exchange).
Responsibilities
- Take product ideas from 0 to 1: scope, design, build, ship, and own them in production.
- Build and maintain large-scale distributed systems for multi-cloud networking — resiliency, scale, and correctness under real customer load.
- Use AI as a core part of how you ship and operate: agentic workflows, LLM-powered dev loops, and AI tooling to move 5–10x faster than a traditional engineer.
- Leverage AI in your daily development workflow.
- Design, build, and maintain APIs and microservices (Java/Spring and Go, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes) — treating the stack as a means to ship and sustain product.
- Operate what you build, including customer escalations, on-call, telemetry, and bug fixes.
- Pick up and maintain existing services in your area.
- Work across teams of varying sizes that may be geographically distributed.
- Multitask and support multiple concurrent projects.
Requirements
- B.S./M.S. (or equivalent) in CS, EE, or a related field.
- 2 years of software engineering experience.
- A builder's instinct: experience taking something from zero to shipped.
- Comfortable inheriting, understanding, and improving an existing codebase.
- AI-native workflow: daily use of tools like Claude Code / Cursor / Copilot and a point of view on how to ship faster with AI.
- Strong CS fundamentals.
- Hands-on experience with Java/Spring and Go.
- Experience with distributed systems, REST API design, DB schema design, and multithreading.
- Linux/kernel fluency.
- Comfort with container + Kubernetes deployment.
- Security-first thinking for distributed, multi-tenant systems.
- Product and customer empathy; caring about why a feature matters.
Nice to have
- Networking background (BGP, SD-WAN, overlays, cloud networking).
Additional details
- Alkira is a Lumen company.
- Founded by Amir and Atif Khan.
- Originally posted on Himalayas.
- To learn more about the product, visit the company website or view a demonstration.
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