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Remote
Senior
Full Time
remoteinfrastructurecloudkubernetesgoterraformaiautomationplatform engineering
Requirements
- •4+ years of backend software engineering experience building large-scale cloud or distributed systems
- •Strong software development skills in Go or a similar language, including design, testing, debugging, and code review
- •Experience shipping and operating cloud services in production, often 3+ years
- •Solid foundation in Linux, networking fundamentals, and cloud security
- •Experience building operational automation, including AI-assisted or agentic workflows, with an emphasis on safety, guardrails, and auditability
- •Clear written and verbal communication in a remote environment, including RFCs, incident writeups, and async collaboration
What You'll Do
- •Reducing toil through automation, including AI-assisted and agentic operational workflows
- •Building self-service onboarding and deployment workflows that reduce tickets and speed delivery
- •Scaling Kubernetes foundations and evolving traffic and ingress stack
- •Build and operate internal platform services and APIs in Go, including provisioning, quotas and policies, cost insights, and platform workflows
- •Deliver golden paths for self-serve onboarding and day-2 operations, including access, deployment setup, observability defaults, and governance guardrails
- •Partner with teams to drive adoption through clear docs, examples, and measurable outcomes
- •Codify infrastructure with Terraform and GitOps practices, and contribute to platform tooling in Go
- •Define and improve SLOs, alerting, and operational readiness
- •Participate in incident response and preventive follow-ups
- •Help standardize safe delivery patterns, including testing gates, canaries, and rollback triggers
- •Operate and scale multi-tenant EKS clusters and traffic and ingress systems to deliver secure, reliable routing
- •Evaluate and adopt improvements with a bias toward incremental rollout and measurable impact
- •Build and iterate on agentic workflows that reduce operational toil, including triage support, context gathering, safe runbook execution, and remediation suggestions
- •Integrate automation into delivery and operations in a way that is safe, observable, and auditable
- •Join an on-call rotation after onboarding and shadowing, and participate in incident response during shifts
Nice to Have
- •Kubernetes and EKS experience, plus ingress, CNI, service mesh, and familiarity with L4 and L7 load balancing
- •Observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana, plus alerting and SLO practice
- •CI/CD and progressive delivery, including GitHub Actions or Argo CD, canaries, and automated rollback
- •Cost optimization at scale, including FinOps and capacity modeling
- •Distributed systems, containers, and Go-based platform tooling
Benefits
- •Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life
- •Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break
- •Home office setup
- •16 weeks of paid Parental leave
- •Technology stipend equivalent to $100 net/month
- •PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy
- •Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes
- •Equity; share in the success of the company
- •Docker Swag
- •Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country
- •Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris
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