Cloud Kubernetes Engineer - Control Plane & Automation

United States Digital Space LLC; Paris (TX); Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Relocation support

Wellness programs

Job summary

Mistral is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable Kubernetes-based control plane services and operators. You will own end-to-end features, collaborate across teams, and drive reliability initiatives while contributing to core platform tooling.

Ideal candidates have a Master’s degree, 5+ years of experience in software/SRE roles, and strong skills in Golang, containers, and observability tools.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• 5+ years in software engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles.
• Strong Golang coding and modern development practices.
• Experience with containerization/orchestration and reliability KPIs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable control plane services, operators, and custom controllers for Kubernetes.
• Cluster lifecycle management including provisioning, upgrades, patching, decommissioning.
• Monitoring and Observability: implement monitoring, alerting, incident response.
• Internal tooling: create workflows, APIs, CLIs to empower users and ML/AI teams.
• Reliability: design resilient systems for large-scale distributed environments.
• Incident Response: participate in on-call rotations and root cause analysis.

Skills

Golang

Docker

Kubernetes

Observability

On-call

Networking

Security

Sysadmin

CI/CD

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Slurm

Job description

Mistral is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable Kubernetes-based control plane services and operators. You will own end-to-end features, collaborate across teams, and drive reliability initiatives while contributing to core platform tooling.

Ideal candidates have a Master’s degree, 5+ years of experience in software/SRE roles, and strong skills in Golang, containers, and observability tools.