Senior Go Engineer — Kubernetes Operators & Cloud Platform

Qdrant; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Qdrant is seeking a software engineer to design and implement features in our Kubernetes operator and control plane services, focusing on the full cluster lifecycle and production reliability in a remote-first environment.

You will design Go-based features, own provisioning, scaling, upgrades, backups, and REST or gRPC APIs for Qdrant Cloud, work across Hybrid/Private Cloud extensions, and participate in on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with infrastructure, platform or distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in Go
• Experience building Kubernetes operators or similar orchestration services
• Understanding of distributed systems concepts such as consistency and replication
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP or Azure)
• Experience designing APIs (gRPC or REST) and with CI/CD and automated testing

Responsibilities

• Design and build features in Go for Kubernetes operators and control-plane services
• Own provisioning, scaling, upgrades, configuration changes, backups and restores of clusters
• Design APIs and integrations for users and AI agents to manage Qdrant Cloud
• Close feature gaps between Hybrid Cloud and managed cloud and extend Private Cloud
• Ensure cluster operations are safe by default with controlled rollouts and clear failure handling
• Participate in on-call rotations for the services you build

Skills

Go

Kubernetes operators

Distributed systems

Cloud provider experience

API design / CI/CD

Job description

Qdrant is seeking a software engineer to design and implement features in our Kubernetes operator and control plane services, focusing on the full cluster lifecycle and production reliability in a remote-first environment.

You will design Go-based features, own provisioning, scaling, upgrades, backups, and REST or gRPC APIs for Qdrant Cloud, work across Hybrid/Private Cloud extensions, and participate in on-call rotations.