Golang Job: Applications Engineer

Job Description

• You will be part of an organization that is revolutionizing our technology platforms and driving a technology landscape that is simplified, modern, and flexible.
• The north star of Service Platform is to provide a set of cohesive multi-cloud managed services that orchestrate across Cloud Provider offerings to abstract the latest container, serverless, and cloud technologies.
• This allows us to build, deliver, monitor, and scale platforms faster and with a lower ongoing effort without having to concern themselves with the undifferentiated infrastructure and automation engineering.
• As a Platform Engineer for Platform Composition System, one of the products in Service Platform, you'll be responsible for implementing end-to-end technical solutions in support of the Platform Strategy.
• You'll work closely with other Platform Engineers to deliver technical design and solutions, contributing to the future success of the business through innovations in technology.

Scope and Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and development of technical solutions for a Kubernetes Foundational Platform.
• Hands-on development of Kubernetes controllers and GitOps deployment of CNCF components.
• Adopt, implement, and promote best-in-class design and architecture principles of security, observability, availability, and reliability.
• Contribute to ways of working, development standards, and training.
• Document, present, and influence technology solutions to various teams in the organization.

Minimum qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years operating Kubernetes-based solutions in production.
• Experience designing and developing large-scale distributed systems on public cloud computing platforms.
• Strong understanding of networking protocols and layers.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience developing Kubernetes controllers in Golang.
• Experience leveraging ArgoCD, Crossplane, or similar tools to implement GitOps.
• Ability to create abstracted solutions that do not rely on any on Cloud Service Provider.
• Able to navigate governance and compliance requirements of Global Platforms.
• Passionate about delighting enterprise customers, and an understanding of enterprise workloads.
• Ability to work collaboratively at all levels in matrix environment.

Ideal Candidate

• We are seeking a platform engineer with hands-on expertise in Kubernetes.
• The ideal candidate will have directly contributed to Kubernetes-native platforms or have demonstrated experience in managing, operating, and administering Kubernetes-based solutions in production.
• Cloud, AWS certifications nice to have, not required.
• Kubernetes/Golang experience HIGHLY preferred.

Soft skills needed for role

• Collaborative - with other engineers on the team and under the org
• Communicative
• Good team player
• Being able to troubleshoot issues with customers (patient)
• Any Certifications in Kubernetes is preferred but not required
• Crossplane experience HIGHLY preferred