Senior Platform Engineer

Job Description:

• Maintain stability of control plane consisting of a distributed microservice architecture closely interacting with kubernetes and cloud provider APIs
• Debug and resolve complex Kubernetes issues across multiple regions and clouds
• Automate database lifecycle operations (deploy, resize, upgrade, fork)
• Participate in on-call rotation, handle incident response, perform root cause analysis
• Develop back-end features for Tiger Cloud, specializing in a distributed microservice architecture
• Develop Kubernetes controllers, operators, and CRDs to extend platform capabilities
• Enhance observability and monitoring systems
• Improve deployment reliability, error handling, and client tooling (CLI interfaces)
• Collaborate closely with infrastructure and software engineering teams
• Stay current with Kubernetes releases and contribute to system architecture of scalable microservices

Requirements:

• 3+ years of software/platform engineering experience
• 2+ years of Go in production environments
• 2+ years of Kubernetes operations (building, debugging, scaling clusters)
• Experience in distributed systems and microservice architectures
• Advanced proficiency in Go (Golang): Go 1.24+, primary development language
• Experienced Kubernetes user familiar with client-go and capable of developing CRDs and controllers
• Experience in PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB administration, migration, replication, performance tuning
• Experience with gRPC & Protobufs in developing services and defining schemas
• Experience with ECPG and Rust for developing low latency memory-efficient applications is a plus
• Experience with Helm Charts for template management and deployment automation
• Knowledge of Kubernetes Operators and CI/CD using GitHub Actions
• Familiar with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry/Jaeger, and infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, Pulumi)

Benefits:

• Flexible PTO and comprehensive family leave
• Fridays off in August