Staff Software Engineer | Systems and L7 Protocols
Formal is hiring for Staff Software Engineer | Systems and L7 Protocols in San Francisco. Staff level. First seen August 6, 2026; open as of November 11, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.
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- Company
- Formal
- Where
- San Francisco
- Level
- Staff
- First seen
- August 6, 2026
- Listed via
- Ashby
What the posting says
You'll work on how connections are established, how application-layer protocols are parsed, and how requests and responses flow between clients and upstream systems. The work goes beyond conventional web backends: understanding wire protocols, managing connection and session state, and working with existing clients without breaking their behavior or adding unnecessary latency. You'll also build the distributed backend that coordinates these proxies, owning projects from research and implementation through debugging and scaling in production. Our stack includes Go, Rust, Temporal, and AWS,…
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