Senior Staff Platform Engineer - Kubernetes - Federal
Core
Design, build, and operate components and services within a cloud-native platform, taking features from design through to production.
Role type
Senior Staff Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)
Builds
Operators, controllers, automation, and platform services that other teams depend on
Domain
Cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, hyperscaler environments
Required skills
Kubernetes, Go, CI/CD, GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration, hyperscaler core primitives (AWS/Azure/GCP), observability
Preferred skills
Kubernetes controllers, operator pattern, container networking (CNI), service mesh, workload identity, mTLS, secrets management
Responsibilities
Design and implement features and services within the cloud-native platform; lead well-scoped projects; collaborate with senior/staff/principal engineers; contribute to reliability, scalability, and operability; write tests and instrumentation; participate in on-call; onboard and mentor junior engineers
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship
