Distinguished, Software Engineer

About the role

RTP’s mission is to reduce operational complexity and accelerate delivery by providing secure-by-default, reliable, and standardized runtime capabilities—so teams can focus on building customer and associate experiences rather than reinventing infrastructure. Within RTP, the Service Registry & Service Mesh team provides the foundational connectivity layer for modern distributed systems.

What you'll do

• Define and own the long-term technical vision and reference architecture for the Service Mesh platform across GTP
• Lead design and implementation of enterprise-scale Istio (or similar) deployments, including multi-cluster topologies, upgrades, and lifecycle management
• Establish standards for service-to-service security (workload identity, mTLS, authorization policy, egress controls) aligned to zero-trust principles
• Drive scalable patterns for traffic management and resiliency (routing, failover, timeouts/retries, circuit breaking) for latency-sensitive, high-throughput services
• Architect and evolve multi-cluster connectivity (east-west traffic, cross-cluster discovery, gateway strategy), including failure-domain isolation and disaster recovery

What you need

• 18–25 years in software engineering
• Java
• Python
• Kubernetes
• Go
• Microservices
• Prototyping
• Any graduate