Software Engineer | Systems and L7 Protocols is open at Formal in San Francisco. The posting gives no salary; similar roles in the United States advertise a median of $190K. Posted on Aug 19, 2025, and still on Formal’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 15, 2026.
About the role
Build the protocol-aware proxies at the core of Formal. 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…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Formal’s careers page.
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