# Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Agent at Ngrok

- Company: Ngrok
- What the company does: ngrok is developer infrastructure that routes and secures traffic to your apps, APIs, and AI models, wherever they run. Start on localhost, ship to prod. Backed by Lightspeed.
- Company website: https://ngrok.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $203K to $248K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-29
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ngrokinc/jobs/6186621004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/ngrok-senior-staff-software-engineer-agent/

## About the role

ngrok runs entirely on AWS. Engineers develop by using remote development tools and/or ssh to connect to remote EC2 environments that run a full Kubernetes cluster of the ngrok stack, closely mirroring production. The codebase is primarily Go and TypeScript. We use Postgres for persistence, Kafka for streaming, Protobuf for service boundaries, and Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and Buildkite to operate and ship reliably.

## What they're looking for

- You’ve built systems-level software that had to work under pressure
- You’re comfortable in Go, Rust, C/C++, or Java (bonus points for Go)
- You enjoy debugging things that “shouldn’t be possible”
- You think deeply about reliability, security, and performance
- You can reason about tradeoffs and explain them like a normal human
- You care about developer experience — not just correctness

Tags: Engineering