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Our team builds the platform that manages how proxy and observability infrastructure is deployed, configured, validated, monitored, and operated, playing a critical role in enabling and monitoring connectivity across network zones.\nThis is an end-to-end ownership role: the team owns both the software platform and the underlying proxy and observability infrastructure it manages. As the platform matures, we will continue to operate these production services while making them safer, more automated, and easier to manage over time.\nWe are building the Dublin team that will own this platform going forward, and this is a rare opportunity to join at an early stage of both the team and the office’s growth. You’ll be part of establishing a new engineering presence for a critical platform within a rapidly growing Dublin office, helping define how the team works, how the system evolves, and how we scale the technology around it. Joining now means shaping the engineering standards, architecture, and operating model for a platform that will be foundational for years to come.\nYou do not need to join as a networking expert. We are looking for senior software engineers who enjoy building reliable infrastructure platforms, can reason carefully about production systems, and are willing to learn the proxy and observability domain on the job. If you enjoy building infrastructure-as-code, deployment workflows, validation systems, and automation for complex production environments, this role should feel familiar even if the domain is new to you.\nThis is a strong fit for engineers who want to build platform software that has real production impact, supporting teams across Bloomberg and ultimately enabling the reliable, secure connectivity that Bloomberg’s clients depend on in real-world markets every day.\nTechnologies We Use\nOur platform is built using Bloomberg’s internal engineering ecosystem and production infrastructure tooling, including:\nPython\n\nGo\n\nKVM-based virtualization on Red Hat Enterprise Linux\n\nObservability platforms such as Humio, Splunk, and Grafana\n\nVendor and open-source proxy and observability technologies\n\nWe’ll trust you to\nDesign and build software systems that manage proxy and observability infrastructure safely at scale.\n\nBuild deployment, configuration, validation, and observability platforms for production infrastructure.\n\nBuild systems that add safety, automation, and strong controls around change management, making changes easier to review, validate, and roll back while reducing reliance on manual operator steps.\n\nImprove telemetry, alerting, and health checks so issues are easier to detect and diagnose.\n\nOperate the production infrastructure your systems manage, with support from the team and clear escalation paths.\n\nParticipate in an on-call rotation for production infrastructure.\n\nWork with internal users and partner teams to understand requirements, explain constraints, and deliver supportable solutions.\n\nReview your own code and others’ code carefully, with high standards for correctness, design quality, test coverage, maintainability, and operational safety.\n\nChallenge assumptions and help shape the architecture and operating model as the platform evolves.\n\nYou’ll need to have\nStrong software engineering experience in a functional or object-oriented programming language. Python and Go are helpful, but strong engineering judgment matters far more than a specific language background.\n\nExperience building, testing, debugging, and operating production software or infrastructure platforms.\n\nAbility to reason through ambiguous technical problems, evaluate tradeoffs, and make sound design decisions.\n\nStrong written, verbal, and diagram-based communication skills.\n\nHigh standards for code authorship and review, including careful review of your own changes and others’ code for correctness, design quality, test coverage, and long-term maintainability.\n\nA degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, a similar field of study, or equivalent work experience.\n\nWe’d love to see\nExperience building deployment platforms, orchestration systems, infrastructure-as-code workflows, or internal developer/operator tooling.\n\nExperience with observability tools such as Splunk, Grafana, Humio, Prometheus, or similar.\n\nExperience designing safe rollout, validation, rollback, or automated remediation workflows.\n\nExperience supporting internal users with diverse requirements while maintaining clear platform standards.\n\nFamiliarity with Linux infrastructure and virtualization.\n\nInterest in mentoring others and raising the engineering maturity of a team.\n\nYou do notneed to have\nThis is a software engineering role, not a network engineering role., we do not expect you to have:\nPrior experience with proxy, network observability, or network security platforms.\n\nDeep knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, or L1-L7 networking concepts.\n\nIf indicated, please note that years of experience are a guide; 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