Senior Engineer – Orchestration
Datum
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Design, implement, and run Datum's core orchestration stack
- Build customer-facing solutions to help our alt-cloud ecosystem thrive
- Scale the management, monitoring, and metering of our edge locations
- Partner with leadership to advance projects with key customers, partners, and suppliers
- Design distributed solutions that scale from startup to hyperscale usage patterns
- Implement intelligent traffic routing, load balancing, and failover
- Build observability, monitoring, and diagnostic tools for complex environments
- Optimize control plane performance for AI workloads and high-bandwidth applications with our network team
- Drive technical networking decisions in collaboration with our open-source community
- Review and mentor contributions from external developers on networking components
- Maintain high code quality standards and documentation for network APIs
- Represent Datum at conferences and in technical working groups
- Design networking solutions that integrate seamlessly with Kubernetes and AI patterns
- Build network policies and security frameworks for multi-tenant cloud environments
- Implement service mesh integration and east-west traffic optimization
- Ensure compatibility with major cloud provider networking services (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Requirements
- 6+ years of large-scale production systems running Kubernetes with security as a first principle
- Strong experience with Kubernetes patterns and APIs, having written custom resources, controllers, and preferably exposure to kubebuilder
- Strong experience with distributed systems design, security, auth, consensus algorithms, async reconciliation, and fault tolerance
- Experience modeling data in Kubernetes, or transferable knowledge from RDBMS, GraphQL, information retrieval
- Extensive experience with multi-cloud networking and hybrid cloud connectivity
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes networking, CNI plugins, and service mesh architectures
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Flux, Terraform, Pulumi) for provisioning
- Understanding of edge computing, CDN architectures, and global traffic management
- Familiarity with SRv6, eBPF, DPDK, VPP, mpTCP and other advanced networking technologies would be a huge plus
- Track record of contributing to or maintaining networking-focused open-source projects
- Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical decision-making in teams
- Understanding of open-source governance, community building, and public development
- Passion for building networking tools that other developers and operators love to use.
Benefits
- Significant public development work
- Transparent development in public networking repositories
- Engagement with the community through GitHub issues, RFCs, and technical discussions
- Opportunities to speak at networking conferences and write technical blog posts
- Collaboration with external contributors, cloud providers, and other partners
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Kubernetesdistributed systems designsecurityauthconsensus algorithmsasync reconciliationfault toleranceinfrastructure as codeCNI pluginsservice mesh architectures
Soft Skills
mentoringtechnical decision-makingcollaborationcommunicationcommunity building