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.

The opportunity would initially involve short-term technical consulting, with potential for further work as the project progresses.
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

Key requirement: We are specifically looking for someone with hands-on experience building and operating solutions of this type at scale, rather than someone offering a theoretical assessment.

Originally posted on Himalayas