Senior Software Engineer (Kubernetes Orchestrator)

Role: 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.

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.