Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer – Scale FinTech Cloud

United States Digital Space LLC; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 196,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance and dental

401(k) matching

Equity

Bonuses

Flexible PTO

Company events

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Compute-focused part of our Software Platform team in Bellevue, WA. You will design, build, and operate scalable container infrastructure with Kubernetes, advancing our transition to Amazon EKS and improving platform reliability.

You will collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to deliver integrations for core capabilities such as networking, security, and service mesh while ensuring high uptime and

Qualifications

• Experience deploying, debugging, and managing large-scale distributed systems or containerized platforms in production environments.
• Familiarity with AWS services and managed container environments like Amazon EKS.
• Knowledge of container networking concepts, cluster security protocols, and open-source cloud-native tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable container infrastructure using Kubernetes to support high-throughput financial applications.
• Contribute to the technical execution of migrating core workloads to Amazon EKS while ensuring zero-downtime deployments.
• Optimize container lifecycle management, networking infrastructure, and cluster provisioning APIs for multi-region reliability.
• Collaborate with engineering teams across the company to integrate core platform capabilities like service mesh, authentication, and load balancing.
• Identify performance bottlenecks in production environments and implement automated solutions to enhance platform availability.

Skills

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

AWS

Cloud-native tools

Tools

Container platforms

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Compute-focused part of our Software Platform team in Bellevue, WA. You will design, build, and operate scalable container infrastructure with Kubernetes, advancing our transition to Amazon EKS and improving platform reliability.

You will collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to deliver integrations for core capabilities such as networking, security, and service mesh while ensuring high uptime and