Go & Kubernetes Platform Engineer — Customer-Facing

Valarian Technologies Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive salary

Employer pension contributions

Private health insurance

Hybrid work setup

Company retreats and team meetups

Job summary

Valarian Technologies Limited is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to deploy, extend, and integrate our secure Kubernetes platform (ACRA) into real-world customer workflows. You will write production Go and React components, configure microservices, and orchestrate Kubernetes workloads while collaborating with frontend, backend, infra, and AI teams to deliver client outcomes.

You will translate client security requirements into practical technical implementations and work across multiple

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Go backend development experience building microservices, REST/gRPC APIs, or event-driven systems.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and integrate backend microservices into diverse customer environments (isolated enclaves, edge clusters, hybrid cloud).
• Bridge product requirements with customer workflows to implement practical solutions.
• Develop containerized applications and Helm charts for Kubernetes workloads.

Skills

Go backend

Kubernetes

DevOps

Product & customer intuition

System design

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes manifests

Helm

GitOps (Argo/Flux)

Relational DBs

Job description

Valarian Technologies Limited is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to deploy, extend, and integrate our secure Kubernetes platform (ACRA) into real-world customer workflows. You will write production Go and React components, configure microservices, and orchestrate Kubernetes workloads while collaborating with frontend, backend, infra, and AI teams to deliver client outcomes.

You will translate client security requirements into practical technical implementations and work across multiple