Kubernetes Engineer

We’re seeking a Kubernetes Engineer to join our team!

About You

• You know what it takes to build, deploy and run a highly available, global-scale, enterprise-wide, cloud platform because you've done it.


• You've grown a team to run a platform that can claim comparable up-time to AWS, MS Azure, Google App Engine and Force.com.


• You believe in serverless computing, automating and codifying operational procedures as much as possible.


• You have designed and operated a container solution using Kubernetes.


• You have an eye for design elegance in infrastructure.

• Share the development, implementation, and administration vision of our platform to ensure the reliability, recoverability and optimum performance.


• Help recruit and groom an exceptional team of technologists with an operations mindset.


• Design, build, utilize and improve tools to automate the deployment, administration, and monitoring cloud-native platform using Kubernetes, Mesos, Marathon, DCOS, Docker,  AWS and Azure among other big data automation and self-healing tools.


• Deliver service availability at or greater than 99.99% uptime in the cloud at specified concurrency and performance levels.


• Design and package a cloud service to be sold to current and new customers.


• Develop and manage multiple, large-scale enterprise relationships, working with technical and business leaders.


• Deploy and utilize automation tools to minimize human operational requirements, provide flexibility and elasticity across cloud infrastructure providers, and facilitate easy movement to and from the cloud for clients.


• Create, manage-to and regularly report against KPIs for the platform's operation, overseeing all platform change management and deployment activities.


• Consistently improve performance and reliability as the platform scales, driving continuous improvement through operational metrics.


• The opportunity to go outside your normal duties and work on our blog, attend hackathons and conferences, speak at events, contribute to StackOverflow and open source development or anything else you're interested in that can add to our community.

• Experience designing a serverless computing environment using Kubernetes and building the cloud controller manager.


• Technical aptitude and a passion for staying current with new and upcoming technologies to ensure the best possible solutions and coaching others.


• Experience designing large-scale public cloud application deployments powering mission-critical applications.


• Broad knowledge in development tools, database management, business analytics, operating systems, servers & storage, networking firewalls & security, and data centers.


• Knowledge and experience managing Hadoop and Spark environments.


• Strong DevOps background for Linux based systems