Staff Software Engineer

DataRobot

Staff Software Engineer responsible for technical leadership and vision at DataRobot. Architecting Kubernetes-based infrastructure and collaborating across teams for high-impact projects.

Posted 5/14/2026full-timeRemote • Massachusetts, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Architect and implement scalable, secure Kubernetes-based infrastructure for multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
Lead technical direction for core Fleet initiatives—control plane services, tenancy models, deployment pipelines, observability layers, and more.
Mentor engineers across the team, fostering a strong engineering culture of ownership, curiosity, and excellence.
Drive modernization efforts—introducing patterns like GitOps, Policy-as-Code (Kyverno), Cilium networking, autoscaling, and better resource efficiency.
Collaborate deeply with SRE, Platform, and Application teams to align infrastructure capabilities with real-world product demands.
Champion best practices in CI/CD, reliability, container lifecycle management, and dev experience.
Be a thought partner to engineering leadership and help shape how Fleet scales its impact across the company.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7-10+ years of engineering experience, with at least 5+ in infrastructure, platform, or backend systems roles.
Deep expertise in Kubernetes internals and operations, including networking, scheduling, scaling, and controller patterns.
Proven ability to design and build systems from scratch, making pragmatic tradeoffs along the way.
Strong proficiency in modern programming languages such as Python or Go.
Experience building production-quality, reliable, and observable systems that are used across engineering organizations.
A growth-oriented mindset—driven to teach, learn, and improve systems as well as people.
Experience operating across multiple cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and/or hybrid environments.
Strong experience with Helm, container orchestration patterns, and CI/CD automation.
Comfortable working with IaC (Terraform, Pulumi) and GitOps workflows.
Ability to influence without authority and align diverse stakeholders around technical decisions.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
Flexible Time Off Program
Paid Holidays
Paid Parental Leave
Global Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and more!

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Hard Skills & Tools

KubernetesPythonGoHelmTerraformPulumiGitOpsCI/CDcontainer orchestrationnetworking

Soft Skills

mentoringleadershipcollaborationinfluence without authoritygrowth-oriented mindsetownershipcuriosityexcellencecommunicationalignment