Senior Cloud Platform Engineer — Automation & K8s (Remote)

Qdrant; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k match

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible PTO

Open-source culture

Choose your own laptop

Job summary

Qdrant is a fully remote company focused on open-source vector search infrastructure for AI applications. We seek a Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure to build internal tools and automation that power Qdrant Cloud at scale.

You will design systems for provisioning, lifecycle management, and observability while working with AWS, GCP, or Azure. This remote role is Americas-based to align time zones.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure software engineering.
• Strong programming skills (Go preferred, Python acceptable).
• Experience building automation or tooling for cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production.
• Experience working with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong understanding of Linux systems and networking fundamentals.
• Experience improving reliability through automation and systems design.
• Comfortable participating in on-call rotations.

Responsibilities

• Build internal tools and services that power Qdrant Cloud infrastructure.
• Develop automation and platform components using Go and Python.
• Design systems for cluster provisioning, lifecycle management, and infrastructure automation.
• Improve Kubernetes automation through controllers, operators, and infrastructure tooling.
• Design solutions that reduce operational toil and eliminate manual infrastructure work.
• Improve reliability, scalability, and observability of the cloud platform.
• Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams on system architecture and automation.
• Participate in incident response and implement improvements to prevent recurrence.
• Continuously improve the internal platform used to operate Qdrant Cloud.

Skills

Go

Python

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Linux networking

On-call readiness

Tools

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Qdrant is a fully remote company focused on open-source vector search infrastructure for AI applications. We seek a Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure to build internal tools and automation that power Qdrant Cloud at scale.

You will design systems for provisioning, lifecycle management, and observability while working with AWS, GCP, or Azure. This remote role is Americas-based to align time zones.