Senior Software Engineer Platform and Reliability
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30+ days ago
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Job Summary
About Us
Qdrant is a cutting-edge vector database company on a mission to revolutionize how organizations manage and query unstructured data. Our open-source engine and managed cloud solutions power AI-driven search recommendation and data discovery at scale. We are a remote-first company building a global team of passionate engineers to push the boundaries of database infrastructure.
The Role
As a Senior Platform Engineer youll be a key contributor to the design and operation of our cloud-native infrastructure. You will build and scale a reliable cost-efficient platform that enables fast iteration and secure delivery of our vector database solutions to customers around the world.
This role sits at the intersection of software engineering and infrastructure. Youll write production-grade Go code manage Kubernetes at scale and design internal tooling and systems that enable developer autonomy and operational excellence.
Tasks
- 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
Requirements
Must Have:
- 57 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
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Flexible work hours and full remote setup.
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology in a fast-growing industry.
- Professional development opportunities and career growth.
- Collaborative and inclusive work environment.
Key Skills
- Kubernetes
- FMEA
- Continuous Improvement
- Elasticsearch
- Go
- Root cause Analysis
- Maximo
- CMMS
- Maintenance
- Mechanical Engineering
- Manufacturing
- Troubleshooting
About Company
Qdrant is powering the next generation of AI applications with advanced, high-performant vector similarity search technology. Our flagship product is the leading open-source Vector Database. https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant
