Staff Engineer, Core & MLOps Platform (Remote)

Lever, Inc.; Belgique; À distance; EUR 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Fully remote

Flexible hours

Global collaboration

Résumé du poste

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Staff Engineer (Core & MLOps) based in Belgium to shape foundational infrastructure for large-scale web data products and distributed teams. You will own architecture of core control and context planes enabling AI-driven workflows, across Kubernetes, Kafka, Java, Python, gRPC, and multi-cloud infra.

This is a fully remote, remote-first role with significant autonomy. You will mentor engineers, define service contracts, and drive reliability through SLOs, incident

Qualifications

• 10+ years building scalable distributed backend systems.
• Advanced Java with reactive frameworks (Vert.x/Netty) and strong Python.
• Deep experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers including schema evolution.
• Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and Kafka.
• Experience designing telemetry pipelines or feedback systems from production data.
• Strong reliability engineering background (SLOs/SLIs, fault tolerance).
• Excellent technical writing and cross-team communication.
• Experience in a globally distributed, remote-first environment.
• MLOps experience including model serving or monitoring is a plus.

Responsabilités

• Architect and evolve core control and context planes for multi-language services.
• Maintain and improve Java/Python client libraries and deployment pipelines.
• Define and govern inter-service contracts, including gRPC and API gateway policies.
• Operate platform infrastructure across Kubernetes, Terraform, and data pipelines.
• Lead architectural strategy via RFDs for orchestration and multi-cluster routing.
• Establish reliability practices, SLOs, blast-radius analysis, and canary deployments.
• Participate in on-call rotations and drive post-mortems for platform improvements.
• Mentor engineers and enforce engineering standards across squads.

Connaissances

Advanced Java

Python proficiency

gRPC Protobuf

Kubernetes at scale

Terraform

Reliability engineering

Technical writing

MLops

Remote collaboration

Outils

Kubernetes

Terraform

Kafka

Envoy

Istio

SPIRE

Cilium

Helm

Description du poste

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Staff Engineer (Core & MLOps) based in Belgium to shape foundational infrastructure for large-scale web data products and distributed teams. You will own architecture of core control and context planes enabling AI-driven workflows, across Kubernetes, Kafka, Java, Python, gRPC, and multi-cloud infra.

This is a fully remote, remote-first role with significant autonomy. You will mentor engineers, define service contracts, and drive reliability through SLOs, incident