Operating and evolving 100+ multi-cloud streaming clusters and related database infrastructure
Diagnosing and eliminating cross-layer failure modes (e.g., object storage latency, noisy neighbors, control-plane bottlenecks, query performance regressions, etc.)
Designing safe upgrade and rollout strategies at scale
Improving observability, automation, and operational ergonomics
Partnering closely with database and platform teams to ensure safe scaling, partitioning, consumer fan-out, and query performance
Working directly with distributed systems behavior, Kubernetes scheduling dynamics, storage engines, compression trade-offs, etc.
Serving as a primary escalation point and on-call for relevant incidents
Owning the relationship with all system vendors, including WarpStream Labs and others.

Requirements

6+ years of engineering experience, including meaningful time in SRE, platform engineering, production engineering, infrastructure engineering, or distributed systems roles.
Experience operating distributed systems in production (e.g., streaming systems, analytical databases, large-scale storage backends). Examples of these include Kafka, Redpanda, WarpStream, Postgres, ClickHouse, Snowflake, or Cassandra.
Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.).
Solid understanding of distributed systems design and large-scale system trade-offs.
Proficiency in at least one programming language (Go preferred, but not required).
Working knowledge of Linux internals, networking, cloud storage, and performance/scaling behavior.
Experience participating in blameless incident response and writing high-quality post-incident reviews.
Clear communicator who can collaborate across teams and work autonomously.
Curious, pragmatic, action-oriented, and kind (this is important!)

Benefits

Health insurance
Equity
Bonus (if applicable)
Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
30 days annual leave with 3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

distributed systemsKubernetesprogramming languageLinux internalsnetworkingcloud storageperformance behaviorinfrastructure engineeringincident responseobservability

Soft Skills

clear communicatorcollaborationautonomycuriositypragmatismaction-orientedkindness