Requirements

Coding Skills: Proficient in writing clean, well-tested, and elegant code
Architecture: Understanding of distributed systems architecture, including consensus, convergence, data consistency, and performance/efficiency constructs
Experience: Proven experience building large-scale distributed systems with landed impact
Project Management: Ability to work independently and manage tasks, from scoping requirements to launch
Continuous Learning: Strong desire to learn, grow, and build best-in-class systems

Nice to Haves

Solution Design: Partner with senior engineers to design reliable solutions for business use cases in highly distributed systems
Software Engineering: experience with the k8s ecosystem and infrastructure systems
Problem Solving: Ability to identify and resolve performance and scalability issues within their team
Implementation: Implement solutions in Go, focusing on clean, readable code with unit and integration test coverage, and running it in production
Communication: Effective communication and collaboration skills, be a strong team player

Build elegant backend platform components for high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems
Build the deployment system for safe deployment of open source k8s operators
Establishing a common model for incremental rollouts, enabling higher-order reasoning for automated decision-making, and ensuring critical safety features like rollbacks
Collaborate with team members to maintain system health, ensure code hygiene, refactor, and enhance system robustness and resilience
Promote best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability
Work with motivated and curious teammates in a fast-paced, collaborative environment