Software-Based Load Balancing Expert - remote - consultancy

This is a remote position.

We are looking for an experienced engineer or architect who has personally designed and implemented large-scale, horizontally scalable software load balancing solutions, using technologies such as HAProxy, NGINX, or equivalent.

The objective is to learn from practical experience how software-based load balancing can provide the required capabilities without relying on hardware load balancer appliances.

Specific scope:

• Architectures supporting hundreds of thousands of requests per second.
  
• Horizontally scalable farms of software load balancers.
  
• Load balancing a single application exposed through a single IP address.
  
• Design approaches such as Anycast, hierarchical load balancing, or other relevant architectures.
  
• Understanding the design, advantages, disadvantages, and trade-offs of these approaches.
  
• Limited header rewriting requirements.
  

Requirements

• Strong experience with F5 BIG-IP
  
• Hands-on experience with HAProxy, NGINX or similar software load balancers
  
• Strong knowledge of HTTP, HTTPS, TCP and SSL termination
  
• Experience designing high-throughput, highly available load-balancing platforms
  
• Knowledge of Anycast, horizontal scaling and multi-tier load-balancing architectures
  
• Experience with header/content rewriting is beneficial