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About the Role

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to own the long-term networking vision for all of SoFi. This role involves shaping cloud networks, defining the north-star cloud network architecture, and leading the use of AI to run networking and infrastructure. It is a hands-on, high-influence role partnering with various leaders across the company.

Responsibilities

Own the long-term technical vision for networking across SoFi, defining a north-star architecture and an incremental, multi-year roadmap.
Lead the architecture of member-facing networking, including multi-region and multi-cluster networking.
Enable incremental rollout and progressive delivery, and set direction for service-to-service and multi-account connectivity.
Drive network automation end to end.
Lead the use of AI to design, operate, and change networks and infrastructure.
Define guardrails, policy checks, and success criteria for AI-guided infrastructure changes.
Build reusable AI tooling and patterns for other infrastructure teams.
Serve as a strategic technical advisor to Infrastructure and Technology leadership on networking.
Influence roadmaps, investment, and vendor and build-versus-buy choices.
Champion AI adoption across infrastructure.
Lead design reviews for network-impacting changes.
Be the technical partner to Security, Compliance, and Risk on network policies and standards.
Be the subject matter expert and lead resolver for company-critical network incidents.
Define SLOs and outcome metrics for networking.
Build observability into the network.
Mentor Staff and Senior Staff engineers and emerging technical leaders.
Raise the bar for design and code review.

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
10+ years of professional engineering experience, including 2+ years in a senior technical leadership role (Staff or above) with company-wide or multi-department scope.
Deep expertise in networking fundamentals and protocols, including TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, and L4/L7 load balancing.
Deep experience designing and operating large-scale, internet-facing networks, including edge, CDN, WAF, and DDoS protection.
Deep expertise in AWS networking and multi-account, multi-region design.
Strong experience with Kubernetes networking, ingress and gateway patterns, and service meshes, including multi-cluster topologies.
Proven experience with traffic management for progressive delivery, such as weighted routing, canary releases, and automated rollback.
Hands-on experience using AI to automate infrastructure or operations work.
Proven programming skills in one or more languages such as Go or Python.
Excellent experience with infrastructure as code and network automation.
Demonstrated track record of setting technical direction across organizations and delivering multi-quarter, cross-functional initiatives to completion.
Experience leading the response to high-severity, customer-impacting incidents.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
Exceptional interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust and drive alignment with non-technical partners and across organizational boundaries.
Experience with on-premises data center networking and hybrid connectivity to public cloud.
Experience with zero trust networking, network segmentation, and workload identity.
Experience building agentic tooling, MCP servers, or AI-guided automation for infrastructure or network operations.
Experience with PKI and certificate automation at scale.
Experience applying security standards and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, PCI DSS, FFIEC, or similar) to network design in regulated industries.

Skills

Networking fundamentals and protocols (TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, L4/L7 load balancing)
AWS networking
Kubernetes networking
Infrastructure as Code
Network automation
AI for infrastructure automation
Go
Python

Location

Remote (excluding Hawaii, Alaska or Puerto Rico)

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Principal
10+ years professional engineering experience
2+ years senior technical leadership (Staff or above)

Education Level

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)

Benefits

Comprehensive and competitive benefits

About the Company

Shape a brighter financial future with us.
We are a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals.
We are at the forefront of an unprecedented transformation in the financial industry.
We are proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way.
Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world.

Equal Opportunity

SoFi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law.
The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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SoFi is committed to an inclusive culture.
As part of this commitment, SoFi offers reasonable accommodations to candidates with physical or mental disabilities.