Sr Principal Software Engineer

• Startup (revenue-generating, Series A) - Product Co.


• Company size: 30


• REMOTE first culture


• Smart, fun, low-ego team culture


• Compensation: Base Salary 200k+, MBO, Equity

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Design, Architecture & Development of K8s-based cloud infrastructure.


• Use K8s Controllers, Operators & CRs to Implement scalable, high-availability solutions.


• Integrate Karpenter, and/or other advanced tools for infrastructure optimization.


• Architect MLOps Middleware integration (dynamic workload migration, resource disaggregation).


• Build monitoring, logging & alerting systems.


• Drive infrastructure cost optimization through FinOps best practices in K8s deployments.


• Promote K8s best practices & mentor software engineers.


• Collaborate across teams to drive K8s adoption in multi-cloud and hybrid environments.


• Open-Source Contributions in the Kubernetes community.

Qualifications

• Kubernetes Expertise


• Designing, deploying, and managing K8s clusters (AKS, EKS, GKE, OpenStack, etc.).


• Hands-on experience with K8s core components (Karpenter, cluster autoscaler, CNI, CSI, CRI, CRD, operators).


• 5+ years in Kubernetes infrastructure.


• Contributing to open-source Kubernetes projects.


• 10+ years: software engineering experience.


• Go, Python, Bash, etc. (one or more).


• Excellent communication skills for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.


• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field (preferred).

Preferred Experience

• GPU scheduling, container orchestration, HPC (high-performance computing) workloads.


• Multi-cloud & hybrid cloud deployments familiarity.


• MLOps platforms experience (Kubeflow, TFX, etc.).


• FinOps practices & cloud cost management experience/knowledge