Lead Software Engineer - MeshMesh
Software Engineering
San Francisco, CA, USA · Austin, TX, USA · Bellevue, WA, USA · Chicago, IL, USA · Seattle, WA, USA
Posted on Oct 9, 2026
As a Systems Architect on MeshMesh, you will shape the technical foundation and long-term architecture of our mesh networking platform, working closely with engineering leaders to ensure the system scales with customer demand.
Responsibilities
- Define and document the overall system architecture across services and components.
- Evaluate technical trade-offs and guide major design decisions.
- Partner with engineering leads to ensure architectural consistency as the platform grows.
- Identify scalability, performance, and reliability risks early and design solutions to address them.
Required Skills/Experience
- You have 10-15 years of experience.
- You have significant experience architecting distributed systems at scale.
- You are skilled at communicating complex technical trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- You have experience guiding architecture across multiple engineering teams.
- You are an Agentic Engineer - you understand how to design systems and workflows that leverage Claude and modern AI coding tools (agent loops, tool use, context engineering) to accelerate delivery.
Preferred Skills/Experience
- You have prior experience with networking, mesh, or edge-computing systems.
- You have experience in a platform or infrastructure product used by other engineering teams.