We are continuing to invest and grow our Go-based Kubernetes team at Redpanda. We are looking for a Cloud DevOps Engineer who is up for the challenge to not only build the systems and to deliver Redpanda as a world class cloud service, but also shape the technical culture that creates these systems. In this role, you will focus on developing and maintaining our global kubernetes fleet. You will collaborate closely with our Cloud and Core engineering teams to build robust and scalable systems, with an emphasis on stability and safe upgrades with zero downtime.
- Build and maintain the Fleet Management tool stack that manages our global footprint of Kubernetes clusters
- Contribute to a Kubernetes operator to manage Redpanda clusters in a zero-downtime fashion
- Participate in an on-call escalation chain, help drive down problems that lead to on-call escalations, and help drive improving on-call quality of life
- Work with all the engineering teams on building new services to be deployed across all of our supported clouds
- Build tools & services to allow automated infrastructure provisioning and self-healing, including deployments and upgrades
- Make resilience and observability integral to the system, enabling us to run a managed, cloud-based streaming-as-a-service with >99.9% uptime
- Passion for working on deeply technical projects and wanting to work on distributed systems, concurrency & parallelism, and correctness
- 5+ years of in-depth knowledges in managing the lifecycle and operations of Kubernetes clusters in the public cloud
- Experience in shaping, managing, and deploying workloads in Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of Go
- Expert knowledge of at least one: AWS, Azure, GCP including experience with IAC both system and network infrastructure
- Understanding of stream processing
- Experience and comfortable working with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, in the open and a self-starter
- Passion to grow a culture of written tradition
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of engaging with stakeholders at all levels of the organization
- Working knowledge of building Kubernetes operators for storage systems and stateful workloads
- Experience building a SaaS platform
- Operated and used streaming platforms either as a user or provider
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What We Do
Redpanda is the streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API-compatible. 10X faster. 6X lower TCO.
