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Qdrant

Staff/Senior Software Engineer – Platform

Qdrant

Software Engineer on the Platform team at Qdrant focusing on core platform services and internal APIs. Drive architectural initiatives and improve developers' experience with cloud technologies.

Posted 4/25/2026full-timeRemote • 🇩🇪 GermanySeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudDistributed SystemsGoGrafanaGRPCKubernetesPrometheusPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Design and evolve core platform services and internal APIs consumed by multiple teams
  • Drive architectural initiatives such as gRPC migration, eventing/pub-sub foundations, and platform refactors
  • Own and improve control-plane and cluster-api components
  • Build platform abstractions that reduce operational and cognitive load for other teams
  • Write production-grade Go code for platform services and internal tooling
  • Collaborate closely with Regions & Clusters, Resilience, and Features teams to enable delivery through platform primitives
  • Improve platform scalability, reliability, and developer experience through thoughtful design
  • Support production systems and incident response when needed, with a focus on long-term fixes

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 5+ years of experience as a software engineer working on platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems
  • Strong proficiency in Go and Python, or deep expertise in one with willingness to work regularly with both
  • Solid experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems and API design
  • Experience building and operating production systems used by other engineers or teams
  • Comfortable working cross-team and driving technical alignment
  • Ownership mindset and clear communication skills
  • Nice to have: Experience with gRPC, event-driven architectures, or control-plane systems
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes operators or cluster-level abstractions
  • Background in SaaS, database, or systems-level product companies
  • Experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
  • Contributions to open-source projects

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Competitive salary, equity, and benefits
  • Fully remote setup with flexible working hours
  • High-impact role with strong ownership and architectural influence
  • Opportunity to work on a core platform used across the entire company
  • Clear growth path toward Staff Engineer or Architecture roles

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Hard Skills & Tools
GoPythonKubernetesgRPCAPI designdistributed systemscloud-native architecturesobservability toolingevent-driven architecturescontrol-plane systems
Soft Skills
ownership mindsetclear communicationcross-team collaborationtechnical alignment