Senior Staff Engineer

Job Title: Senior Staff Engineer

Duration: 1 Year, possible extension
Location: Remote

The Difference You Will Make:
As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Cloud Infrastructure Compute team, you'll be the technical leader for the lifecycle management of our Kubernetes compute platform. You will enable the Cloud Infrastructure organization to work efficiently and effectively by enhancing all aspects of the engineering experience.

This compute platform is the foundation for all of the features that Cloud Infrastructure delivers in security, networking, developer experience, and efficiency. This compute platform ensures the consistency required to enable delivery across multiple cloud vendors. Your peers will rely on you to provide a quality platform that makes it easy to deliver quality features to our product teams across the company. Your team will provide the reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience necessary for infrastructure teams to deliver enhancements to the platform and product teams.

Targeting candidates with experience at cloud-native, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused companies such as Datadog, Cloudflare, CoreWeave, DigitalOcean, Cloudera, CircleCI, Elastic, Dynatrace, or similar organizations where Kubernetes is used at scale in production environments. No targeting candidates whose Kubernetes experience is limited to UI tools, basic cluster ops, or non-engineering functions.

A Typical Day:

• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
• Deliver enhancements that drive the cost efficiency of our cloud platform.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Contribute to the multi-year strategy to evolve client's Cloud Platform
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance the compute platform.

Your Expertise:

• BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 12+ years of relevant work experience in infrastructure
• 4+ years of expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure-as-a-service offering (e.g. EC2).
• Experience setting technical direction, planning, and successfully executing on large projects spanning multiple teams
• Kubernetes Experience is required.
• Istio/Envoy Experience is preferred.
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, quality and developer experience.

Please factor in the following feedback from the hiring manager when sourcing and screening candidates:

• Strong preference for candidates proficient in Go (Golang)
• Must have advanced Kubernetes expertise, specifically: Hands-on experience writing Kubernetes controllers
• Experience building and working with admission Webhooks
• We are not looking for candidates whose Kubernetes experience is limited to: UI-based management "Clicking buttons" or basic cluster operations