[Remote] Distributed Systems Engineer - Cloud Platform
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
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