Remote – US (West Coast)
About the CompanyAn innovative, VC-backed cloud infrastructure company is transforming how organizations connect, secure, and observe modern applications—including APIs, microservices, and data—through a leading API and service mesh management platform.
Founded in 2017, the company works with some of the world’s largest organizations across multiple industries and geographies. The team brings deep expertise in cloud computing, Linux, containers, Kubernetes, service mesh, APIs, security, microservices, and modern application architecture.
About the RoleThis organization is seeking customer-centric technologists who are passionate about helping companies successfully adopt and scale modern cloud-native platforms.
In this role, you will work closely with customers to guide them from implementation through production deployment, ensuring they achieve success with the platform. The ideal candidate enjoys troubleshooting complex systems, solving technical challenges, and combining strong technical expertise with excellent communication skills.
This role is well suited to engineers who enjoy supporting customers throughout the lifecycle and acting as a trusted technical advisor for cloud-native technologies and distributed systems.
This is a remote role for candidates based in the Pacific Time Zone (US West Coast).
Please note that work visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
ResponsibilitiesProvide day-to-day expert technical guidance to existing customers
Build strong relationships with customers, sales teams, and product teams
Proactively guide customers through architectural and platform setup decisions
Troubleshoot complex technical challenges in collaboration with developers and field engineers
Contribute to open-source and platform-related projects through issues, pull requests, and documentation
Stay current with new platform capabilities and related technologies to maintain deep technical expertise
Maintain professionalism and empathy when managing complex or high-pressure support scenarios
Engage with relevant open-source communities to support adoption and external collaboration
Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes
Working knowledge of Go, Java, Node.js, or a similar modern programming language
Ability to review and troubleshoot code when diagnosing technical issues
Strong written and verbal communication skills
This organization emphasizes hiring talented people, fostering a collaborative and fast-moving environment, and enabling teams to work closely with customers to solve complex challenges.
Teams collaborate directly with customers, partners, and open-source communities to deliver technical innovation, architectural best practices, and hands-on guidance. Their engagement model enables customers to achieve rapid success while continuing to scale their production environments.
The company is committed to creating an inclusive workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.
Skills Required
- At least 2 years of hands-on Kubernetes experience
- Working knowledge of Go, Java, Node.js, or a similar modern programming language
- Ability to review and troubleshoot code when diagnosing technical issues
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
SourceDirect Talent Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Affordable Benefits — Some postings describe employer-covered health premiums for employees and substantial support for dependents, signaling low out-of-pocket costs where eligible. Offerings may vary by role or employer-of-record, but the described coverage indicates strong affordability in certain cases.
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Retirement Support — Listed packages for select roles include a 401(k) with company matching, with one description characterizing the plan as among the strongest of its kind. These elements point to meaningful long-term savings support when applicable.
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Flexible Benefits — Descriptions highlight remote work options, flexible schedules, and home-office or coworking stipends, alongside learning support and occasional company off-sites. Such features suggest benefits that adapt to different working arrangements.
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SourceDirect Talent is a talent advisory and recruiting firm serving seed and early-stage startups. It provides AI-powered recruiting solutions to help customers build go-to-market and engineering teams, alongside global people consulting. Its services cover end-to-end recruitment, immigration, HR, and advisory support, using AI talent agents, sourcing frameworks, and data-driven processes to help growing companies scale hiring and improve recruitment capacity.
