Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (Kubernetes Orchestrator)
Duration: FTE
Location: San Jose, CA (Hybrid)
A MUST – Engineers who built internals of Kubernetes Orchestrator (like Rancher, KubeSphere, Rafey etc) not the dev ops engineers who use the orchestrator.
Description:
We are seeking a motivated Sr.Software Engineer with some experience in Kubernetes orchestrator development to join our growing engineering team. As part of this role, you will contribute to designing, developing, and maintaining our cloud-native orchestration platform that manages edge clusters. You will work alongside experienced engineers to implement solutions that optimize and automate containerized applications using Kubernetes. This is an exciting opportunity to work with Kubernetes at the edge and learn from a team of experts in distributed systems and cloud-native technologies.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the development of Kubernetes-based orchestration systems to manage containerized applications.
- Assist in the implementation of scalable architectures using Kubernetes.
- Work on Kubernetes components like operators, controllers, schedulers, and custom resource definitions (CRDs).
- Collaborate with team members to optimize microservices architecture and Kubernetes workflows.
- Assist in automating CI/CD processes for Kubernetes workloads.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in Kubernetes clusters.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to team knowledge sharing.
Required Skills:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with exposure to backend or systems-level development.
- 3+ years of experience working with Kubernetes or other container orchestration systems.
- Familiarity with Go (Golang) is a must.
- Basic understanding of Kubernetes APIs, operators, and controllers.
- Exposure to Docker, docker-compose, and other container runtimes.
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines for containerized applications.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and Kubernetes service offerings (EKS, AKS, GKE).
- Deep understanding of micro services architecture.
Preferred Skills:
- Knowledge of service meshes like Istio or Linkerd.
- Experience with tools like Helm, Istio, etcd.
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools in Kubernetes (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) open-source project contributions.
- Certification in Kubernetes administration
- Experience in working with and implementing the internals of any open-source orchestrators like Rancher, KubeSphere etc.
