Senior Staff Engineer

Tekgence Inc; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Tekgence Inc is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer for the Cloud Infrastructure Compute team to lead the lifecycle management of our Kubernetes compute platform. You will drive engineering excellence across security, networking, and developer experience while ensuring consistency across cloud providers.

You'll provide technical leadership, coach distributed teams, and shape multi-year strategy to evolve the platform, delivering reliable, scalable, and efficient infrastructure for product teams

Qualifications

• BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 12+ years of relevant work experience in infrastructure.
• 4+ years of experience with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their IaaS.
• Kubernetes experience required.
• Istio/Envoy experience preferred.
• Strong Go (Golang) proficiency requested.
• Experience writing Kubernetes controllers and admission webhooks preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
• Deliver cost-efficient enhancements to the cloud platform.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance the compute platform.
• Manage project priorities, timelines, and deliverables.
• Contribute to multi-year strategy of the Cloud Platform.

Skills

Kubernetes expertise

Go (Golang)

Leadership / mentoring

Cloud infrastructure

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes controllers

Admission Webhooks

Istio/Envoy

AWS/GCP/Azure

Job description

As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Cloud Infrastructure Compute team, you’ll be the technical leader for the lifecycle management of our Kubernetes compute platform. You will enable the Cloud Infrastructure organization to work efficiently and effectively by enhancing all aspects of the engineering experience. This compute platform is the foundation for all of the features that Cloud Infrastructure delivers in security, networking, developer experience, and efficiency. This compute platform ensures the consistency required to enable delivery across multiple cloud vendors. Your peers will rely on you to provide a quality platform that makes it easy to deliver quality features to our product teams across the company. Your team will provide the reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience necessary for infrastructure teams to deliver enhancements to the platform and product teams.

Targeting candidates with experience at cloud-native, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused companies such as Datadog, Cloudflare, CoreWeave, DigitalOcean, Cloudera, CircleCI, Elastic, Dynatrace, or similar organizations where Kubernetes is used at scale in production environments.

A Typical Day:

• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
• Deliver enhancements that drive the cost efficiency of our cloud platform.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Contribute to the multi-year strategy to evolve client’s Cloud Platform
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance the compute platform.

Your Expertise:

• BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 12+ years of relevant work experience in infrastructure
• 4+ years of expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. EC2).
• Experience setting technical direction, planning, and successfully executing on large projects spanning multiple teams
• Kubernetes Experience is required.
• Istio/Envoy Experience is preferred.
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, quality and developer experience.

Please factor in the following feedback from the hiring manager when sourcing and screening candidates:

• Strong preference for candidates proficient in Go (Golang)
• Must have advanced Kubernetes expertise, specifically: Hands-on experience writing Kubernetes controllers
• Experience building and working with admission Webhooks