Senior Software Engineer, Kubernetes Platform

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As a Senior Software Engineer, Kubernetes Platform you will join a team responsible for administrating, operating, and supporting our shared application Kubernetes Platform consisting of 20+ clusters across 5 geos with 100+ nodes per cluster and 1000+ applications. You will have the opportunity to design, deploy, and troubleshoot high throughput, low latency, and globally scaled distributed systems while ensuring the availability, reliability and scalability of our services. The ideal candidate will have debugging and troubleshooting skills, a deep understanding of Kubernetes and container orchestration, and a grasp of low-level Linux systems, networking, and kernel internals.

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Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain high-availability Kubernetes clusters in a globally distributed environment. 
• Develop solutions ensuring low-latency performance and rapid scaling of containerized applications. 
• Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems.  
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues related to performance, scaling, and reliability of Kubernetes environments. 
• Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to ensure deployments are optimized for both performance and cost. 
• Implement and manage disaster recovery plans, failover strategies, and backup systems to ensure high system reliability and availability. 
• Automate infrastructure processes using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Puppet, and Ansible. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:  

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in at least one compiled (Golang, Rust) and one interpreted (Python, Perl) language 
  • OR equivalent experience. 
• 4+ years of experience administrating Kubernetes Clusters. 
• 4+ years of experiences in infrastructure focusing on low level systems, Linux, Containers, and Kubernetes. 
• 4+ years of experiences in building, shipping and operating reliable, distributed solutions. 

Preferred Qualifications  

• 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in at least one compiled (Golang, Rust) and one interpreted (Python, Perl) language.  
• 4+ years of experience administrating Kubernetes Clusters.  
• 4+ years of experiences in infrastructure focusing on low level systems, Linux, Containers, and Kubernetes. 
• Experience with troubleshooting issues from the orchestration layer to the runtime.   
• Experience designing and troubleshooting large distributed systems.  
• Experience with IaC solutions such as Puppet, Terraform, Ansible, etc.