Senior Software Engineer – Platform & Data Infrastructure
Senior engineer responsible for scaling and operating multi-region Kubernetes, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, security governance, and data-platform infrastructure. The role requires 8+ years of platform, SRE, or cloud data infrastructure experience and strong Kubernetes and Terraform expertise.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Operate production, multi-region Kubernetes fleets, including lifecycle management, network topology, node-pool migrations, and deployments on GKE and EKS.
- Maintain automated GitOps reconciliation pipelines using FluxCD and Helm, including cluster bootstrapping, progressive rollouts, and secret integrations.
- Architect modular Terraform codebases, manage enterprise workspaces with Terraform Enterprise and Terragrunt, and enforce compliance guardrails using Sentinel and OPA policy-as-code.
- Build and optimize data pipelines and workflow orchestration using Apache Airflow, Kafka, and enterprise data warehouses such as BigQuery.
- Integrate enterprise secrets-management tools including HashiCorp Vault, External Secrets Operator, and Google Secret Manager/KMS.
- Enforce Workload Identity and network perimeter controls.
- Lead zero-downtime infrastructure initiatives, including IP-addressing migrations, cluster rebuilds, and database cutovers.
- Participate in on-call rotations, design observability dashboards with Splunk and GCP Cloud Logging/Stackdriver, write runbooks, and execute regional disaster-recovery failover drills.
- Mentor mid-level and junior engineers through code and design reviews and establish self-service infrastructure standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or graduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or cloud data infrastructure.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Bash, SQL, or Java.
- Deep experience operating enterprise-scale Kubernetes fleets and container ecosystems, particularly GKE or EKS.
- Extensive practical experience writing modular Terraform and managing Infrastructure as Code at scale.
- Experience operating event-streaming and workflow systems such as Apache Airflow, Kafka, or BigQuery.
Nice-to-haves
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification.
- Experience with Terraform Enterprise and Sentinel or Open Policy Agent policy-as-code guardrails.
- Experience with GitOps workflows using FluxCD or ArgoCD across multi-tenant production fleets.
- Advanced secrets-management expertise with HashiCorp Vault and Kubernetes External Secrets Operator.
- Experience executing large-scale cloud migrations, data warehouse transitions, or networking range overhauls with zero customer impact.
Compensation and Benefits
- Annual base salary: $190,978–$214,052 USD.
- Base salary excludes company bonus, sales incentives, equity, and benefits.
- Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage; health savings and flexible spending accounts; life and disability insurance; 401(k) with company match; parental leave; paid time off and company holidays; commuter benefits; learning and development support; and additional wellbeing and employee assistance programs.
Skills
Kubernetes, GKE, EKS, Terraform, GitOps, Fluxcd, Helm, Apache Airflow, Kafka, BigQuery, Python, Bash, SQL, Hashicorp Vault, Opa
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