Mara

Principal Systems Engineer – IaaS/PaaS

Mara

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Seattle • Washington • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AirflowAnsibleCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoGrafanaKafkaKubernetesPrometheusPythonSparkTerraform

About the role

  • Design and evolve core compute, storage, and orchestration systems powering large-scale data and ML workloads.
  • Drive implementation of secure, reliable, and scalable Kubernetes-based platforms, including Operators, CI/CD pipelines, and IAM systems.
  • Collaborate with ML, product, and infrastructure teams to enable efficient data pipelines, feature stores, and training workflows across heterogeneous hardware.
  • Own platform reliability through observability, automation, and proactive performance optimization.
  • Define standards for deployment, validation, and operational readiness across environments.
  • Lead vendor evaluation and integration for key technologies (Kafka, Snowflake, MLflow, Trino, etc.).
  • Foster a culture of open-source contribution, innovation, and continuous learning.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software, systems, or data engineering experience; 3+ years in technical leadership or management.
  • Proven expertise with distributed systems, data streaming (Kafka, Flink, Spark), and ML orchestration (Airflow, Kubeflow, MLflow).
  • Strong proficiency in Go and Python with hands-on experience in Kubernetes, Docker, and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible).
  • Deep understanding of observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/FluentBit) and platform security.
  • Experience delivering data migrations, hybrid cloud architectures, and large-scale CI/CD automation.
  • Familiarity with modern data warehousing (Snowflake, Iceberg, Delta Lake) and vector databases (PgVector, Milvus, LanceDB).
  • Track record of successful client delivery across multiple domains (cloud, media, industrial ML, or hardware integration).
  • Excellent communication, cross-team collaboration, and mentoring skills.
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • Flexible work arrangements

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
KubernetesGoPythonDockerTerraformAnsibleKafkaMLflowAirflowCI/CD
Soft skills
technical leadershipcommunicationcross-team collaborationmentoringinnovationcontinuous learning