Staff Software Engineer - IaaS (VM-as-a-Service) REMOTE

Our Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineers, Sr. Staff Engineers, and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and ex‐ ecution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The VM Management team is driving the development of the next- gen Kubernetes-based VM management platform, prioritizing security, reliability, scalability, and efficiency. We seek a candidate with deep technical expertise in designing, building, and main‐ taining secure cluster management systems on Azure and OpenStack IaaS, at scale across physi‐ cal and public cloud environments.

Position Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer, you will:

• Provide technical and thought leadership across diverse areas.

• Develop and execute a strategic software development plan for IaaS, encompassing containers, VMs, Kubernetes, and OpenStack. Prioritize security, optimization for performance and efficiency across the entire development lifecycle.

• Own solution quality, usability, and performance.

• Mentor and exemplify technical excellence, influencing the engineering and product community.

• Share best practices, refine processes, and drive continuous improvement.

• Analyze costs, forecast, and integrate into business plans.
  Determine resource needs, assess processes, and ensure adaptability for continuous learning.

• Fulfill on-call responsibilities and offer operational support.

• Collaborate with teams, customers, and product managers to address challenges. 

Qualifications

• Expertise in multi-cluster metrics, observability, and operations utilizing frameworks such as Grafana and Prometheus.

• In-depth understanding of containerization technologies, including Docker, Podman, and Rancher.

• Proficient with advanced technologies like ArgoCD and KubeVirt.

• In-depth knowledge and practical experience in Linux operating systems, internals, and command-line utilities.

• Hands-on experience in public and/or private cloud environments, including Open‐ Stack, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, and GCP.

• Extensive experience in API, Microservices, network, and security architectures, incorporating design patterns.

• Strong foundations in software engineering, encompassing the entire software delivery lifecycle.

• Professional experience in software development using modern programming languages like Go, Python, or Java.

• Experience in security protocols and products, including Active Directory, SAML, and OAuth.

• Demonstrated ability to design and implement resilient, scalable, and efficient solutions.

• Experience in building architecture and design, covering patterns, reliability, and scaling for both new and existing systems.

• Fluent in DevOps concepts and cloud architecture, with a strong foundation in Shell scripting.

• Experience in Datacenter structure, capabilities, and offerings, with a focus on Azure platform and native services.

• Possesses relevant cloud and container certifications, coupled …