Senior Software Engineer, Cluster & Lifecycle (EMEA) (Fully Remote)

Qdrant; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Flexible working hours

Open-source culture

Job summary

Qdrant is hiring for a Go-focused distributed systems engineer to help build and operate Qdrant Cloud. The role emphasizes Kubernetes operators and control-plane services, with responsibility across provisioning, scaling, upgrades, and API design.

This is a remote-first position on an international team. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in infrastructure or distributed systems, strong Go skills, and comfort with on-call incidents.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in infrastructure or distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in Go and experience with Kubernetes operators.
• Comfortable with on-call rotations and production incident handling.

Responsibilities

• Design and build features in our Kubernetes operator and control-plane services in Go.
• Own the full cluster lifecycle from provisioning to scaling and upgrades.
• Design APIs and integrations for managing Qdrant Cloud.

Skills

Go

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

On-call rotations

Job description

• Qdrant Cloud is growing fast, with most new product features landing with this team.
• This role is for engineers who enjoy hard distributed systems problems and write Go daily.

What You Will Own:

• Design and build features in our Kubernetes operator and control-plane services in Go.
• Own the full cluster lifecycle from provisioning to scaling and upgrades.
• Design APIs and integrations for managing Qdrant Cloud.

Who You Are:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in infrastructure or distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in Go and experience with Kubernetes operators.
• Comfortable with on-call rotations and production incident handling.

Why Join Us:

• Remote-first, international team working on cutting-edge AI infrastructure.
• Competitive salary with additional perks and flexible working hours.
• High ownership and real impact in an open-source, engineering-driven culture.

Qdrant

We are Qdrant, an open-source vector search engine powering the next generation of AI applications, from semantic search to AI agents. We recently raised $50M in Series B funding, are growing rapidly, and have a remote-first, diverse culture.