Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dice is partnering with a well-funded, venture-backed infrastructure startup that is building a next-generation cloud database platform. They are seeking an experienced Distributed Systems Engineer to help build their managed cloud platform, focusing on designing and developing a cloud-native control plane and Kubernetes Operators.
Responsibilities
- Designing and building a cloud-native control plane for a managed database platform
- Developing Kubernetes Operators and Controllers to provision, upgrade, scale, and maintain customer clusters
- Building automation around backups, replication, failover, monitoring, and lifecycle management
- Designing APIs and orchestration systems that manage stateful infrastructure
- Working closely with cloud-native database technologies and the wider Postgres ecosystem
- Improving deployment, testing, monitoring, and operational tooling
- Collaborating directly with customers to solve complex infrastructure challenges
- Helping shape product strategy, technical architecture, and engineering best practices
Skills
- Building distributed systems or cloud infrastructure platforms
- Developing Kubernetes Operators, Controllers, CRDs, or other Kubernetes-native software
- Designing APIs, control planes, orchestration platforms, or infrastructure automation
- Production development experience in Go or Rust
- Operating reliable production workloads on Kubernetes
- Experience with infrastructure tooling such as Terraform, Helm, Bash, or Python
- Database operators or Database-as-a-Service platforms
- Cloud-native Postgres technologies
- Search platforms, analytical databases, or high-performance data systems
- Open-source contributions
- Experience working in early-stage or high-growth startups
Company Overview
Dice is the go-to career marketplace for tech professionals. It was founded in 2010, and is headquartered in Drachten, Friesland, NLD, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.or-quest.nl/.Company H1B Sponsorship
Dice has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2022, 4 in 2021, 5 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.