Senior Platform Engineer

Responsibilities

Service Maintenance

• Maintain stability of control plane consisting of a distributed microservice architecture closely interacting with kubernetes and cloud provider APIs.
• Debug and resolve complex Kubernetes issues across multiple regions and clouds.
• Automate database lifecycle operations (deploy, resize, upgrade, fork).
• Participate in on-call rotation, handle incident response, perform root cause analysis.

Feature Development

• Develop back-end features for Tiger Cloud, specializing in a distributed microservice architecture with an emphasis on platform and database expertise.
• Develop Kubernetes controllers, operators, and CRDs to extend platform capabilities.
• Enhance observability and monitoring systems.
• Improve deployment reliability, error handling, and client tooling (CLI interfaces).

Collaboration & Architecture

• Work closely with infrastructure and software engineering teams to ensure platform scalability and reliability.
• Stay current with Kubernetes releases, features, CNI/CSI interfaces, and cluster orchestration tools.
• Contribute to system architecture for scalable microservices and distributed systems.

Code Quality & Testing

• Write idiomatic Go code with comprehensive unit and integration tests.
• Maintain >80% code coverage and enforce quality with golangci-lint.
• Perform peer reviews and follow Go/Kubernetes best practices.
• Ensure security compliance and vulnerability management.

Requirements

• 3+ years of software/platform engineering experience.
• 2+ years of Go in production environments.
• 2+ years of Kubernetes operations (building, debugging, scaling clusters).
• Experience in distributed systems and microservice architectures.
• Go (Golang): Advanced proficiency (Go 1.24+), primary development language.
• Kubernetes: Experienced Kubernetes user familiar with client-go and capable of developing CRDs and controllers.
• PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB: Administration, migration, replication, performance tuning.
• gRPC & Protobufs: Experience developing services and defining schemas.
• PostgreSQL user, capable of interacting with various libraries and not dependent on ORMs (required).
• PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB administration in production.
• Backup/restore procedures and disaster recovery strategies.
• WAL management and replication (streaming/logical).
• Query optimization, tuning, and parameter adjustments.
• Infrastructure & DevOps: Helm Charts, Kubernetes Operators, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Monitoring & Observability (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry/Jaeger), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi), Linux & Bash, Kubernetes lifecycle (kOps).
• Experience with ECPG and Rust (plus).

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with TimescaleDB or PostgreSQL in production.
• Cloud provider expertise (AWS, Azure).
• Experience with self-hosted Kubernetes clusters (not only EKS/AKS/GKE).
• Familiarity with CNI and CSI plugins.
• Experience tuning Kubernetes core components (API server, kubelet, scheduler, etc.).
• Previous work on database-as-a-service or large-scale distributed systems.

Benefits

• Flexible PTO and comprehensive family leave.
• Fridays off in August.
• Fully remote opportunities globally.
• Stock options for long-term growth.
• Monthly WiFi stipend.
• Professional development and educational resources.
• Premium insurance options for you and your family (US-based employees).