Senior Software Engineer – Platform and Reliability

Qdrant

full-time

Posted on: 10/14/2025

Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇩🇪 Germany

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AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesMicroservicesPrometheusPython

About the role

Design, implement, and operate our cloud-native platform architecture
Build and maintain Kubernetes clusters and develop custom Kubernetes operators
Write production-grade Go code for platform services and automation tooling
Optimize cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure) for performance, cost, and reliability
Improve observability across the platform through monitoring, logging, and alerting
Automate workflows and integrations across systems and tools
Collaborate with engineering, operations, and data teams to understand and support their infrastructure needs
Contribute to incident response, root cause analysis, and system hardening
Continuously improve performance, developer experience, and reliability at scale

5–7+ years of experience in platform engineering, or SRE roles
Strong proficiency in Go and Python, or deep expertise in one and willingness to work with both
Deep experience developing Kubernetes operators
Solid grasp of distributed systems and microservices architecture
Hands-on experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and automation best practices
Comfort participating in on-call rotations and managing production incidents
A proactive, ownership-driven mindset and strong communication skills
Nice to Have: Prior work in a SaaS, database, or systems-level product company
Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and service meshes (e.g., Istio, Linkerd)
Familiarity with observability standards like OpenTelemetry
Contributions to open-source projects.

Benefits

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

GoPythonKubernetescloud infrastructure optimizationdistributed systemsmicroservices architectureCI/CDinfrastructure-as-codeautomationobservability

strong communication skillsproactive mindsetownership-driven mindset