Sr Staff Engineer Software (Controller/Kubernetes)

About the position

We are seeking a highly skilled Engineer specializing in cloud-native infrastructure development. This role is ideal for someone with expertise in Kubernetes, container orchestration, multi-cloud resource orchestration and distributed systems. The team you will join is responsible for architecting, scaling, and optimizing our multi-cloud environments (Terraform, CFT etc. as well as Kubernetes-based environments) to build and maintain a high-availability, resilient infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside a team of Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure engineers.
• Work cross-functionally with development, DevOps, and security teams to streamline deployments and optimize system reliability.
• Architect, implement, monitor and scale multi-cloud deployments, Kubernetes clusters for mission-critical applications.
• Define and enforce Kubernetes security, networking, and governance best practices.
• Improve monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions for Kubernetes-based workloads.
• Evaluate and integrate service mesh technologies like Istio where necessary.
• Optimize performance, cost, and availability in cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, OCI).
• Develop and manage dynamic orchestration for multiple cloud resources in AWS, GCP, OCI etc.
• Develop and manage Kubernetes infrastructure-as-code (IaC).
• Work closely with SRE and DevOps teams to enhance CI/CD pipelines for containerized applications.
• Ensure compliance with SLAs, SLOs, and SRE best practices for uptime and performance.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and capacity planning efforts.

Requirements

• 5-10 years of experience in software engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or OCI) and cloud-native technologies.
• Experience with Helm, Terraform, Kustomize, ArgoCD, or Flux.
• Proficiency in scripting or programming languages such as Python or Go.
• Good understanding of networking concepts like CNI, ingress controllers, and service meshes.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments and edge computing.
• Exposure to serverless computing (Knative, AWS Lambda).
• Experience working with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

Benefits

• FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees.
• Mental and financial health resources.
• Personalized learning opportunities.