Sr Engineers, Software

Sr Software Engineer (Cloud Native) – Bellevue, WA

Responsibilities

• Build reliable, distributed systems that deliver high performance, observability, and operational visibility at scale.
• Design and develop cloud‑native infrastructure and APIs using Go and Python, building custom Kubernetes controllers and operators to automate platform operations.
• Develop microservices and APIs in Golang, improving developer productivity with Swagger and WSDL.
• Architect multi‑cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure, utilizing EC2/VMs, VPC/VNet, load balancers, RDS/Azure SQL, S3/Blob Storage, KMS/Key Vault, and DNS/IAM services.
• Implement observability platforms using Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, and Outcold.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and delivery with Terraform, Ansible, GitOps (Flux), and GitLab CI pipelines.
• Ensure security and compliance with OPA/Gatekeeper, Kubernetes network policies, and Wiz.
• Manage Kubernetes workloads with Containerd, Istio, NGINX Ingress; implement autoscaling (KEDA), progressive delivery (Flagger), disaster recovery (Velero, ETCD), and stateful storage (Portworx).
• Architect and manage GPU‑optimized Kubernetes clusters for AI/ML workloads using NVIDIA GPU nodes; streamline multi‑cluster operations with Spectro Cloud.
• Troubleshoot and debug Linux environments using Bash, systemd, and journalctl for stability and issue resolution.
• Telecommuting permitted, but must work at the worksite at least 3‑4 days per week.

Skill Requirements

• Experience with multiple programming languages (Python, Go, Java, JavaScript) in production environments and designing RESTful APIs, gRPC services, and event‑driven applications.
• Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and on‑premises (Kubeadm, Spectro Cloud); configuring ContainerD & Docker, RBAC, network policies, Istio & Cilium, and designing scalable micro‑services architectures.
• Experience designing and deploying cloud‑native systems with 12‑Factor principles, building stateless microservices and connecting to external services.
• Experience with Ubuntu, RHEL, and Flatcar Linux OS, Bash scripting, troubleshooting kernel, network, performance issues, and root cause analysis.
• Experience with DevOps tools: GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible, Vault, KMS; and
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Splunk for monitoring, tracing, logging, and using observability data to improve performance.

Experience and Education Requirements

• Primary: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or related field plus 5 years of related work experience.
• Alternative: Master’s degree in Computer Engineering or related field plus 3 years of related work experience.

Additional Information

• Location: Bellevue, WA.
• Work hours: 40 hours per week.
• Washington pay range: $212,202.00 – $217,202.00 per year.
• Travel required: No.

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