Destava

Senior Software Engineer | Systems and L7 Protocols

Formal is hiring for Senior Software Engineer | Systems and L7 Protocols in San Francisco. Senior level. First seen August 6, 2026; open as of November 12, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Formal
Where
San Francisco
Level
Senior
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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