Staff Kubernetes Platform Architect

DataRobot; Polska; On-site; PLN 320,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

DataRobot’s Fleet team builds and operates Kubernetes-based infrastructure powering multi-tenant SaaS, on-prem, and hybrid deployments. You’ll provide technical leadership, architecture vision, and hands-on contributions to scale the platform across environments.

You’ll mentor engineers, drive modern patterns like GitOps and policy-as-code, and partner with SRE/Platform teams to deliver reliable, observable systems at scale. A growth mindset and ability to influence across teams are essential.

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years of engineering experience, with at least 5+ in infrastructure or backend systems.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes internals and operations, including networking, scheduling, scaling, and controller patterns.
• Proven ability to design and build systems from scratch, making pragmatic tradeoffs.
• Strong proficiency in Python or Go and building production-quality, observable systems.
• Experience across AWS, GCP, Azure or hybrid environments.
• Experience with IaC (Terraform, Pulumi) and GitOps workflows.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and lead technically without authority.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement scalable, secure Kubernetes-based infrastructure for multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
• Lead technical direction for core Fleet initiatives—control plane services, tenancy models, deployment pipelines, observability layers, and more.
• Mentor engineers across the team, fostering ownership, curiosity, and excellence.
• Drive modernization—GitOps, Kyverno-style policy-as-code, and better resource efficiency.
• Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Application teams to align infra with product demands.
• Champion CI/CD, reliability, container lifecycle, and developer experience.
• Shape how Fleet scales its impact across the company.

Skills

Kubernetes internals

Go/Python programming

Multi-cloud experience

GitOps

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD patterns

Leadership & mentoring

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

Helm

Docker

Git

Job description

DataRobot’s Fleet team builds and operates Kubernetes-based infrastructure powering multi-tenant SaaS, on-prem, and hybrid deployments. You’ll provide technical leadership, architecture vision, and hands-on contributions to scale the platform across environments.

You’ll mentor engineers, drive modern patterns like GitOps and policy-as-code, and partner with SRE/Platform teams to deliver reliable, observable systems at scale. A growth mindset and ability to influence across teams are essential.