Platform Engineer Messaging Infrastructure

WirelessCars Journey

Build the event-driven messaging infrastructure for Drive WirelessCars Internal Developer Platform!

WirelessCar drives the future of mobility by connecting vehicles and developing cutting-edge digital services. We help leading brandslike Volkswagen Volvo and Jaguar Land Roverinnovate enhance mobility and accelerate their digital transformation. Join us and shape the next era of automotive technology!

Team Trailblazers at WirelessCar is building Drive an Internal Developer Platform designed to make it easier for WirelessCar developers to build and run customer solutions. Were looking for a person who is willing to learn everything there is to know about messaging technologies like NATS. Both from an operational perspective but also from the perspective of how to use them for building the best possible solutions for the customers of WirelessCar.

About team Trailblazers

Trailblazers is a cross-functional platform engineering team shaping the future platform for hundreds of developers. As a part of this team you will influence architecture innovate and see your impact directly in production. The team thrives on collaboration and shared ownership.

What youll work on

Operate and scale NATS clusters: monitor tune and troubleshoot production NATS infrastructure; take part in incident response and capacity planning

Improve observability and SRE practices: dashboards alerts and tracing that help teams debug their own messaging issues

Create actionable documentation with real-world examples: clear examples runnable code troubleshooting guides

Build developer tooling: create CLIs APIs or Kubernetes operators that let teams provision messaging resources on-demand through self-service tooling

Continuous improvements: continuously work on designing fine-tuning and ensuring the best possible clustering topology

We pair and mob by default expect collaborative coding sessions multiple times a week.

What were looking for

Experience working in production environments: monitoring alerting incident response and post-mortems

Ability to work in an ambiguous environments: its part of your job to discover the options document trade-offs in lightweight ADRs to drive a decision then make sure the implementation reach production

Willingness to go deep on NATS internals: clustering JetStream subject hierarchies security models

Solid understanding of distributed systems: youve debugged distributed systems in production and understand how to approach network partitions performance degradation and message processing bottlenecks

Nice to have

Experience from operating systems running on Kubernetes

Hands-on experience designing and operating messaging systems or other high-throughput distributed systems

Youve built or contributed to open source (we maintain NAuth a Kubernetes Operator that enables GitOps of NATS AuthN/Z configuration)

Experience of Helm charts and Kubernetes CRDs we value experience in crafting users interfaces with those or similar technologies

You write Go or want to learn how to write idiomatic Go of high quality

Interested in or already using AI Agents for development

Youve worked with GitOps (ArgoCD Flux or Kargo) and understand how to work with declarative infrastructure definitions

If you want to write about your work or speak at conferences well support you!

To join our journey
WirelessCar is always on the move often into uncharted land. We are curious believe in collaboration and are always open to new ideas on how we can make a difference. When you join our journey you will be part of a great crew of highly competent and warm hearted people from all over the world.

Way of working
At WirelessCar we believe in a Hybrid Remote work setup. The preferred work location is in the Gothenburg region

• Applicants must have a valid work permit.

• Our company language is English so please write your application in English.