The Impact You Will Drive:
- As a Backend Engineer on the Kubernetes Infrastructure team, you'll design and build the software that powers Onehouse's cloud platform. You'll work on Kubernetes-native infrastructure including Operators, Controllers, and platform automation that manage distributed data systems at scale. Your work will directly influence how our platform provisions, upgrades, monitors, and operates customer deployments across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
This is a software engineering role focused on extending Kubernetes not operating clusters as a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineer.
A Typical Day:
Design and develop Kubernetes Operators and Controllers using Go and controller-runtime.
Build Kubernetes-native automation for provisioning, upgrading, scaling, and managing distributed systems.
Develop Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and reconciliation logic to automate platform lifecycle management.
Build backend services that integrate with Kubernetes APIs and cloud infrastructure.
Improve the reliability, scalability, and observability of infrastructure software running on Kubernetes.
Collaborate with backend, data platform, and frontend engineers to deliver platform capabilities.
Design software that powers Spark and AI workloads on Kubernetes.
Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to long-term platform design.
Debug complex distributed systems running in Kubernetes production environments.
Maintain high engineering standards through code reviews, automated testing, and observability.
What You Bring to the Table:
- 5+ years of experience building backend or infrastructure software.
- Strong programming skills in Go (preferred) or Java
- Experience developing Kubernetes Operators using controller-runtime.
- Hands-on experience with:
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes APIs and Kubernetes architecture.
- Experience building distributed systems or cloud-native backend services.
- Experience debugging production systems running on Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with one or more cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Strong software engineering fundamentals including testing, debugging, code reviews, and system design.
- Built production Kubernetes Operators.
- Contributed to Kubernetes ecosystem projects.
- Designed software for large-scale cloud platforms
- Experience building control planes for distributed systems
- Passion for open source and cloud-native technologies.
Nice to Have
What This Role Is Not
This is not primarily a DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Kubernetes cluster administration role.
While you'll work closely with cloud infrastructure and production systems, your primary focus will be designing and building Kubernetes-native software rather than day-to-day cluster operations.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience as a platform engineer
- Experience with managing Kubernetes clusters and applications
- Experience deploying applications on one or more cloud platforms
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code
- Experience with automation frameworks
- Experience with monitoring stacks
- Experience with cloud security management
- Great problem-solving skills
- Quick decision making
- Clear communication skills
- Experience with data processing technologies like Spark
What We Do
Onehouse delivers a universal data lakehouse through a cloud-native managed lakehouse service built on Apache Hudi, which was created by the founding team while they were at Uber. Onehouse makes it possible to blend the ease of use of a warehouse with the scale of a data lake, by offering a seamless experience for engineers to get their data lakes up and running. Onehouse offers the widest interoperability for your data in the market across table formats, multiple compute engines and multiple cloud providers. We have a stellar team of inspired, seasoned professionals including data, distributed systems, and platform engineers from Uber, LinkedIn, Confluent, and Amazon. Our product team has helped build enterprise data products at major enterprises including Azure Databricks.








