Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (Remote) - Go & Kubernetes

Qdrant; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Flexible working hours

Open-source culture

Job summary

Qdrant is seeking a highly skilled backend engineer to design, build, and operate core control-plane services in Go within a remote-first, international team. You will focus on scalable APIs (gRPC/REST) and containerized deployments on Kubernetes, while improving security, auditing, and authentication workflows.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of backend experience, deep Go expertise, and familiarity with Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry to support robust, observable systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with focus on platform, backend, or infrastructure.
• Strong proficiency in Go and experience with APIs (gRPC/REST) in production.
• Solid experience running services on Kubernetes and knowledge of OAuth2/OIDC authentication.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core control-plane services in Go.
• Work on platform-wide concerns like security, audit, and authentication/authorization plumbing.
• Improve developer experience and delivery through CI/CD, testing, and safety checks.

Skills

Go

APIs (gRPC/REST)

Kubernetes experience

Tools

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Qdrant is seeking a highly skilled backend engineer to design, build, and operate core control-plane services in Go within a remote-first, international team. You will focus on scalable APIs (gRPC/REST) and containerized deployments on Kubernetes, while improving security, auditing, and authentication workflows.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of backend experience, deep Go expertise, and familiarity with Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry to support robust, observable systems.