Backend Engineer - Observability & Fleet Control Platform

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 175,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in stock options

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Generous PTO

Retirement plan

Job summary

Fluidstack is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own and operate the observability stack across our hyperscale fleet. You will build data pipelines, a decoration and correlation engine, and health checks to keep everything visible from site to device.

You’ll define production API contracts and underpin a Kubernetes-based production control plane. You will own fleet state, SLOs, site lifecycle integration, and onboard new hardware through IaaS workflows, including ZTP, DHCP, DNS, and artifact

Qualifications

• Experience designing scalable APIs with stable contracts.
• Strong ability to navigate ambiguous domains quickly.
• Proven track record shipping production services used by multiple teams.
• Comfort with AI tooling and code generation in multiple languages.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate the observability platform including data pipelines and health checks.
• Define API surfaces and contracts used across production tooling.
• Build and maintain the production control plane and Kubernetes‑based infra.
• Maintain fleet state, SLOs, and integrations with internal/customer platforms.
• Onboard new hardware through IaaS including ZTP, DHCP, DNS, artifacts.

Skills

Toil as a bug

APIs that age well

Ambiguity navigation

Fast learner

Pager on call

AI tooling fluency

Production services shipped

Tools

Prometheus

Thanos

VictoriaMetrics

Temporal

Cadence

Go

Python

PostgreSQL

Redfish

BMC

Job description

Fluidstack is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own and operate the observability stack across our hyperscale fleet. You will build data pipelines, a decoration and correlation engine, and health checks to keep everything visible from site to device.

You’ll define production API contracts and underpin a Kubernetes-based production control plane. You will own fleet state, SLOs, site lifecycle integration, and onboard new hardware through IaaS workflows, including ZTP, DHCP, DNS, and artifact