CareerPlanSign in

Sr Staff Software Engineer

Hyderabad, in💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-22 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead design and delivery of complex components and services within a cloud-native platform, focusing on Kubernetes infrastructure, automation, and AI integration.

Role type

Sr Staff Software Engineer (Cloud-Native Platform & Kubernetes)

Builds

Kubernetes operators, controllers, infrastructure automation, platform services, and AI-powered operational workflows.

Domain

Cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, distributed systems, AI engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Kubernetes architecture, Go programming, distributed systems design, cloud platform operations, CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, observability, technical strategy, mentorship

Preferred skills

Container networking (CNI), service mesh, mTLS, workload identity, secrets management, declarative infrastructure tooling, distributed data/compute workloads

Technologies

Kubernetes, Go, Kubebuilder, Operator Framework, EKS, AKS, GKE, Terraform, Crossplane, AWS, Azure, GCP

Responsibilities

Lead design and delivery of complex cloud-native components; act as technical lead for major features; partner with Principal/Distinguished Engineers on architecture; identify and resolve technical risks; maintain hands-on presence in coding and reviewing core systems; mentor mid-level and junior engineers; integrate AI into engineering and platform work.

Seniority

Sr Staff, hands-on IC with strategic alignment

Sourced via smartrecruiters · Listed on CareerPlan, which tracks 70,000+ jobs from 20+ sources.