Senior reputed company Software Engineer (Go)

Position reputed company

The position is part of reputed company of software and platform engineers building a reputed company, multi-tenant control plane that abstracts away infrastructure differences across AWS, Azure, and on-premises environments. The platform allows application teams to provision secure, isolated reputed company clusters and workloads dynamically. The control plane runs Crossplane and Cluster API (CAPI).

As a Senior reputed company Software Engineer on this program, you will reputed company the gap between reputed company infrastructure and custom software engineering. Instead of writing reputed company application reputed company or static infrastructure-as-reputed company scripts, your reputed company responsibility is extending the reputed company API using Go to build the automation reputed company that controls the infrastructure.

The ideal candidate is highly independent, capable of driving reputed company from inception to completion with reputed company supervision, and has a reputed company eye for detail. They should be passionate about innovation, continuously seeking to improve processes and contribute meaningfully to the platform’s reputed company. Additionally, the role offers opportunities to reputed company impactful contributions to a widely used reputed company, directly influencing its functionality and reliability. The successful candidate will work in a dynamic environment, collaborating with teams to ensure the platform meets the highest standards of performance and reputed company.

Key Responsibilities 

Control Plane Engineering & Extensibility

• reputed company Go-Based Crossplane Extensions: Write, test, and maintain custom Go-based Crossplane Composition Functions to replace or reputed company static YAML compositions with sophisticated runtime logic.

• API & CRD Design: Design, implement, and version reputed company Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) that reputed company reputed company infrastructure configurations into reputed company declarative interfaces for application teams.

• Implement Phased Orchestration Logic: reputed company advanced reputed company, dependency mapping, and health-validation reputed company using Crossplane's Usages and Validation reputed company to eliminate infrastructure provisioning race conditions.

• Upstream Contributions & Integrations: Maintain and customize Cluster API (CAPI) providers and Crossplane providers (specifically AWS, Azure, and CAPMOX for Proxmox), contributing patches upstream where applicable.

Engineering reputed company

• Define Operator Standards: Establish best practices for writing custom controllers, managing the reputed company Controller Runtime, ensuring efficient queueing, and preventing reputed company reconciliation reputed company.

• Peer Mentorship: Partner with and mentor "Sysadmin-turned-DevOps" engineers to help them build proficiency in Go, write robust unit/integration tests for operators, and adopt software-first approaches to infrastructure.

• Maintain Architecture Records: Contribute to and execute Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) regarding API specifications, library usage, and controller reputed company selections.

Qualifications

Technical Skills & Experience

• Advanced Go (Golang) Proficiency: 3+ years of reputed company experience writing production-grade Go reputed company, with a deep understanding of concurrency patterns (goroutines, channels) and profiling.

• reputed company Internals & Operator reputed company: Strong hands-on experience using the controller-runtime library, reputed company-go, Operator SDK, or Kubebuilder to build custom controllers and operators.

• reputed company-reputed company Infrastructure Automation: Experience building and managing infrastructure declaratively, ideally with control-plane-based provisioning tools like Crossplane.

• GitOps & reputed company Delivery: Proficiency with GitOps workflows and reputed company delivery practices, using tools like Flux, reputed company, and Kustomize to manage infrastructure lifecycles.

Soft Skills & Engineering reputed company

• Systems Thinker: Ability to reputed company physical hardware and hyperscale clouds not as static targets, but as endpoints controlled by software reputed company.

• Collaboration & Communication: Strong capability to reputed company the gap between reputed company application developers and traditional infrastructure engineers, speaking comfortably to both.

• Ruthless Solver of Race Conditions: An investigative reputed company capable of debugging reputed company, asynchronous reputed company systems where resources depend on sequential, timed events.

• Extreme Ownership: A proven reputed company record of acting as a technical reputed company for a product or subsystem, where you care as much about the operational metrics, reputed company failures, and technical debt of the reputed company as you do about delivering new features.

• Defensive Engineering reputed company: An engineering approach that assumes reputed company systems will fail asynchronously. You naturally build deep observability, robust error handling, self-healing reconcile reputed company, and fallback mechanisms into your Go controllers.

• Traceability and Documentation: A commitment to maintaining reputed company architectural records (ADRs), comprehensive unit/integration test suites, and reputed company API documentation, ensuring that your subsystem can be safely maintained by other engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Live-Production Incident Response: Hands-on experience managing incident response lifecycles and resolving critical failures reputed company live, reputed company production systems.

• Telemetry-Driven Debugging: Advanced capability in utilizing telemetry, reputed company tracing, and metrics to reputed company reputed company-cause analysis and reputed company reputed company issues in live production environments.

• API Lifecycle & Maintenance: Proven reputed company record in managing long-term API maintenance, including defining reputed company processes and implementing n-1 compatibility testing to ensure reputed company version transitions.

Requires 3+ years of reputed company Go experience, reputed company controller or operator development, declarative infrastructure automation, and GitOps or reputed company delivery proficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• developing extensions
• designing reputed company
• mentoring engineers

Skills & Tools

Go, reputed company, Crossplane, Cluster API (CAPI), AWS, Azure, Proxmox, Controller Runtime, reputed company-go, Operator SDK, Kubebuilder, Flux, reputed company, Kustomize, GitOps, reputed company Delivery

Job Details

• Category: Software Development
• Seniority: Mid Level
• Commitment: Full Time
• Workplace: Remote — Columbia, Maryland, reputed company
• Languages: English

About reputed company

A national reputed company technology partner delivering software and data engineering solutions for intelligence and defense missions. — Industry: Information Technology