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Trabajarás en un entorno dinámico con tecnología de vanguardia, aplicando buenas prácticas de ingeniería, modelos de IA propios y aprendizaje continuo, con el propósito de democratizar el comercio electrónico y los servicios financieros en América Latina.\nImagináte emprendiendo proyectos desafiantes, dinámicos e innovadores y siendo responsable de:\nLiderar técnicamente la evolución de Classic Mesh hacia Traffic Gateways, definiendo la arquitectura, la hoja de ruta y los estándares para adoptar de forma gradual la operación e implementación de Gateways de Istio en entornos legados y segmentos.\nConducir la reducción de deuda técnica de fury-controlplane y sus componentes asociados mediante actualizaciones de Envoy y dependencias, modernización de infraestructura como código, soporte multi-arquitectura y simplificación de componentes obsoletos.\nAsegurar la confiabilidad del plano de control xDS y de los proxies Envoy que sostienen el enrutamiento de producción, velando por la capacidad, resiliencia multi-región y multi-nube, estrategias de despliegue, observabilidad, pruebas de carga y respuesta a incidentes.\nLiderar la evolución del ciclo de lanzamiento del proxy desde el código y los filtros de Envoy, pasando por la compilación y empaquetado multi-arquitectura, hasta el despliegue gradual en la plataforma Fury.\nDefinir y ejecutar, junto con el equipo de Istio, el plan de transferencia de Gateways, abarcando la colaboración en repositorios compartidos, la operación en modo sombra, el traspaso de backlog y la estabilización de los primeros gateways priorizados. • Guiar técnicamente al equipo elevando estándares de diseño, calidad y revisión de código, acompañando el desarrollo técnico de las personas y conduciendo análisis posteriores a incidentes y mejoras sistémicas junto con ingeniería de confiabilidad.\nActuar como referente técnico para los equipos consumidores de la capa de tráfico, traduciendo necesidades de enrutamiento, seguridad y confiabilidad en soluciones de plataforma simples, seguras y operables.\n¿Qué buscamos en vos?\nDemostrar experiencia sólida en desarrollo de software y diseño de sistemas distribuidos de alta disponibilidad en plataformas de infraestructura o tráfico.\nDominar lenguajes de programación como Java o Go, junto con experiencia en proxies Envoy, gRPC y patrones de plano de control y plano de datos.\nAcreditar experiencia operando o construyendo infraestructura en la nube automatizada sobre Kubernetes, AWS o GCP, aplicando integración y despliegue continuos e infraestructura como código.\nPoseer conocimientos sólidos de redes y enrutamiento, incluyendo protocolos HTTP y HTTPS, balanceo de carga, malla de servicios, gateways, seguridad TLS y políticas de tráfico. Contar con experiencia en la aplicación de prácticas de ingeniería de confiabilidad de sitios, abarcando observabilidad, monitoreo, planificación de capacidad, respuesta a incidentes y estrategias de despliegue seguro.\nValorar especialmente la capacidad comprobada de liderazgo técnico para la definición de estándares, diseño de arquitectura, revisión de código y toma de decisiones con impacto transversal, así como conocimientos en Istio, Nginx, C++, Bazel e imágenes distroless.\n¿Te animás a dejar huella en la tecnología de América Latina?\n¡Postulate y sumate a nuestro propósito!\nModalidad de trabajo híbrida. 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