Senior Go Engineer — Cloud & Kubernetes Infra (Remote)

Qdrant; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k match

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Qdrant, a remote-first vector search engine, is seeking a Senior Go Engineer to advance its distributed infrastructure in production. You will design and implement features for Kubernetes operators and control-plane services in Go, shaping how customers manage large-scale databases.

You’ll own the full cluster lifecycle, collaborate across teams, and contribute to open-source projects. This role offers a competitive salary, equity options, and comprehensive US benefits for remote employees.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering, with focus on infrastructure or distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in Go.
• Experience building Kubernetes operators.
• Understanding of distributed systems concepts.
• Experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Experience designing APIs (gRPC or REST) and with CI/CD and testing.
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations.
• Ownership mindset and clear communication.

Responsibilities

• Build features in Kubernetes operator and control-plane services, in Go.
• Own full cluster lifecycle: provisioning, scaling, upgrades, configuration changes, backups.
• Design APIs and integrations for management by customers and AI agents.
• Close gaps between Hybrid Cloud and managed cloud; extend Private Cloud.
• Ensure cluster operations safe with controlled rollouts and failure handling.
• Participate in on-call and incident root cause analyses.
• Collaborate with Operations, Platform, Billing & IAM, Product and Support.

Skills

Go language

Distributed systems

API design (gRPC/REST)

CI/CD

On-call experience

Ownership mindset

Communication skills

Databases/DBaaS knowledge

Tools

Kubernetes

Kubernetes operators

AWS

GCP

Azure

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Qdrant, a remote-first vector search engine, is seeking a Senior Go Engineer to advance its distributed infrastructure in production. You will design and implement features for Kubernetes operators and control-plane services in Go, shaping how customers manage large-scale databases.

You’ll own the full cluster lifecycle, collaborate across teams, and contribute to open-source projects. This role offers a competitive salary, equity options, and comprehensive US benefits for remote employees.