Senior Platform Engineer Cloud Infrastructure Go
Overview
We seek a senior engineer to design and operate cloud-native platforms using Go. This role involves building Kubernetes clusters managing networking workload isolation and multi-region topologies implementing service mesh features like mTLS and traffic management optimizing containerized workloads developing Go services and middleware writing unit and integration tests leading incident response defining SLOs and building alerting systems managing infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines planning cloud migrations and ensuring observability through metrics and tracing collaborating with product and security teams.
What You'll Do10
- 1Design and operate production Kubernetes clusters including networking workload isolation and multi-region topologies
- 2Work with Kubernetes internals resource quota management scheduling and cluster behaviour network policy enforcement and custom controllers or operators
- 3Implement service mesh capabilities mTLS between services service account level authentication and authorization and traffic management across internal and external request paths
- 4Optimize containerized workloads for performance cost and resource efficiency
- 5Write refactor and maintain production Go services controllers and middleware extending platform functionality read and contribute to complex codebases including open source projects
- 6Build HTTP REST and gRPC interfaces lead incident response for platform level issues investigate root causes and author postmortems define and drive SLOs and build actionable alerting systems
- 7Own infrastructure as code authoring reusable modules and maintaining them as platform evolves
- 8Build and improve CI/CD and GitOps delivery workflows balance developer velocity against reliability security and compliance plan and execute cloud migration initiatives maintain reliability during workload moves
- 9Build and maintain metrics dashboards alerting policies and distributed tracing ensure observability instrument services for diagnosable failures
- 10Partner with product security and infrastructure teams collaborate on design reviews and mentor engineers to raise engineering standards
Requirements22
- 16+ years professional experience in software platform infrastructure or SRE including production distributed systems
- 2Production experience writing Go with primary language daily
- 3Experience designing systems from ambiguous starting points and delivering to production
- 4Migration of cloud services planning and executing production workload moves between providers
- 5Degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent practical experience
- 6Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals networking CNI NetworkPolicy resource management and cluster behaviour under load
- 7Hands-on experience with service mesh Istio Envoy Linkerd or similar and mTLS workload identity
- 8Solid Linux fundamentals including cgroups and resource management
- 9Infrastructure as code at scale Terraform or equivalent
- 10Production experience with major cloud platforms GCP AWS or Azure multicloud a strong plus
- 11Observability tooling Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry PromQL and database expertise PostgreSQL or managed services
- 12Debugging and performance profiling skills
- 13Preferred Go testing frameworks Ginkgo Gomega experience building Kubernetes controllers operators or API server extensions
- 14Additional strength in Python
- 15Identity and access management SSO Keycloak OIDC SAML or secret management with Vault or cloud equivalents
- 16High availability and disaster recovery across regions or providers
- 17Monorepo experience and build systems such as Bazel
- 18Ability to read Java
- 19Compliance frameworks SOC 2 GDPR
- 20Interest in LLM-backed systems cloud-native environments
- 21Alibaba Cloud experience highly preferred
- 22Large-scale Data Platform technologies Apache Spark and Apache Flink
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