Senior Platform Engineer (Crossplane)

Role overview

Build and operate the Kubernetes infrastructure behind a large data platform processing roughly 400,000 pipelines per day. You’ll develop infrastructure orchestration and self-service capabilities, as well as production services and tools used by other engineering teams. The role spans platform design, implementation, and operations, with independent ownership of complex initiatives.

Responsibilities

- Design and run production Kubernetes clusters, including networking, workload isolation, and multi-region setups. - Extend infrastructure orchestration with Crossplane, Kubernetes APIs, custom resources, controllers, and operators. - Build reusable infrastructure capabilities and production services, preferably in Go, and provide HTTP, REST, or gRPC interfaces for internal teams. - Implement service mesh security and traffic management, including mutual TLS and service-level authentication and authorization. - Improve workload performance, cost, resource use, and failure containment; support observability through metrics, dashboards, alerts, and tracing. - Work with partner teams on requirements and architecture, and communicate trade-offs and progress through delivery.

Requirements

- At least 7 years in software, platform, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering, including production distributed systems. - Experience building and operating Kubernetes platforms, with working knowledge of cluster networking, scheduling, resource management, NetworkPolicy, and cluster behavior under load. - Production software development experience in Go, Python, or Java; Go is preferred. - Practical experience with Kubernetes APIs, controllers or operators, reconciliation patterns, and reusable infrastructure abstractions such as Terraform modules. - Ability to take ambiguous infrastructure problems from design through production, and explain technical and operational trade-offs. - Relevant degree or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

Experience with Crossplane, GitOps, cloud migrations, service meshes, or observability systems is relevant. Monorepo or Bazel experience, Java literacy, compliance exposure, and Kubernetes or CNCF community involvement are also useful.

Benefits and work setup

Remote role based in Brazil, with coverage during Pacific business hours (8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. PST).