Senior Platform Engineer - Go, Kubernetes (Remote)

qdrant.tech; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first, asynchronous-friendly

Flexible hours

Ownership and open-source environment

Competitive salary and benefits

Job summary

qdrant.tech is seeking a seasoned platform engineer to build and operate shared services used by cloud teams. You’ll design control-plane components in Go, run production APIs on Kubernetes, and enable secure access for people and AI agents.

You’ll improve CI/CD, observability, and incident response, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with cluster lifecycle, operations, billing, and identity services.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of software engineering experience with platform, backend, or infrastructure focus.
• Strong Go skills; production APIs or backend services using gRPC or REST.
• Production experience running services on Kubernetes in a cloud environment.
• Working knowledge of OAuth2/OIDC, tokens, API keys, and secure-by-default design.
• Experience with CI/CD and automated testing; willing to join an on-call rotation.
• Excellent communication and a strong sense of ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and run control-plane services in Go.
• Develop platform-wide authentication, authorization, security, and audit capabilities, including OAuth-based access through APIs and CLIs.
• Improve engineering workflows with CI/CD, automated testing, and safeguards for code changes, including AI-assisted contributions.
• Strengthen monitoring, logging, alerting, and metrics for platform services.
• Reduce recurring operational work through engineering improvements and participate in on-call, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
• Coordinate with teams responsible for cluster lifecycle, operations, billing and identity services.

Skills

Strong ownership

Clear communication

On-call readiness

Tools

Go

Kubernetes

Cloud providers

gRPC/REST

OAuth2/OIDC

CI/CD

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

qdrant.tech is seeking a seasoned platform engineer to build and operate shared services used by cloud teams. You’ll design control-plane components in Go, run production APIs on Kubernetes, and enable secure access for people and AI agents.

You’ll improve CI/CD, observability, and incident response, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with cluster lifecycle, operations, billing, and identity services.