Lead Software Engineer - MeshMesh

Momentum
Momentum

Software Engineering

San Francisco, CA, USA · Austin, TX, USA · Bellevue, WA, USA · Chicago, IL, USA · Seattle, WA, USA

Posted on Oct 9, 2026

As a Systems Architect on MeshMesh, you will shape the technical foundation and long-term architecture of our mesh networking platform, working closely with engineering leaders to ensure the system scales with customer demand.

Responsibilities

  • Define and document the overall system architecture across services and components.
  • Evaluate technical trade-offs and guide major design decisions.
  • Partner with engineering leads to ensure architectural consistency as the platform grows.
  • Identify scalability, performance, and reliability risks early and design solutions to address them.


Required Skills/Experience

  • You have 10-15 years of experience.
  • You have significant experience architecting distributed systems at scale.
  • You are skilled at communicating complex technical trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • You have experience guiding architecture across multiple engineering teams.
  • You are an Agentic Engineer - you understand how to design systems and workflows that leverage Claude and modern AI coding tools (agent loops, tool use, context engineering) to accelerate delivery.


Preferred Skills/Experience

  • You have prior experience with networking, mesh, or edge-computing systems.
  • You have experience in a platform or infrastructure product used by other engineering teams.