Staff Engineer, Core & MLOps (Remote)

Lever, Inc.; Ireland; Remote; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Remote-first

Autonomy

Global collaboration

Job summary

Lever, Inc. in Ireland is seeking a Staff Engineer (Core & MLOps) to shape foundational infrastructure powering large-scale web data products and distributed teams. You’ll own the architecture of core control and context planes enabling AI-driven workflows at production scale.

The role blends hands-on architecture with technical leadership, mentoring, and creating reliable platform services. This remote-first position offers significant autonomy and impact across multiple squads.

Qualifications

• 10+ years creating scalable distributed backend systems.
• Advanced Java with reactive frameworks (Vert.x/Netty).
• Deep experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers.
• Production Kubernetes at scale and Terraform usage.

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve control and context planes with SLO enforcement and canary releases.
• Maintain multi-language Java and Python client libraries and deployment pipelines.
• Define inter-service contracts including gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and API gateway strategies.
• Operate core platform infra across Kubernetes, Terraform, and Kafka ecosystems.
• Lead architecture discussions via RFDs on workflow and gateway orchestration.
• Mentor engineers across squads and drive reliable software practices.

Skills

Java

Python

gRPC

Kubernetes

Terraform

Kafka

Reactive

Tools

Confluent Kafka

Istio

Job description

Lever, Inc. in Ireland is seeking a Staff Engineer (Core & MLOps) to shape foundational infrastructure powering large-scale web data products and distributed teams. You’ll own the architecture of core control and context planes enabling AI-driven workflows at production scale.

The role blends hands-on architecture with technical leadership, mentoring, and creating reliable platform services. This remote-first position offers significant autonomy and impact across multiple squads.