Staff Software Engineer - Kubernetes Operations
Core
Design, build, and maintain highly available Kubernetes infrastructure at scale to power millions of daily transactions.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer - Kubernetes Operations
Builds
Container orchestration and cloud-native services for a payments platform
Domain
Fintech / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Kubernetes, container technologies (Docker, containerd), infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm), Go/Python/Java, distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Preferred skills
CKA/CKS certification, service mesh (Istio, Linkerd), observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog), fintech domain knowledge, open-source contributions
Technologies
Kubernetes, Docker, containerd, Terraform, Helm, Go, Python, Java, AWS, GCP, Azure, Istio, Linkerd, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog
Responsibilities
Design and maintain scalable Kubernetes infrastructure, lead architecture decisions for container orchestration, mentor engineers on best practices, develop automation tools and CI/CD pipelines, optimize workload performance, drive reliability and disaster recovery initiatives, participate in on-call rotation
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities