Staff Cloud Availability Platform Engineer

7+ years of experience in platform, backend, or infrastructure engineering roles.
Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes internals, deployment patterns, and operational tooling.
Strong understanding of networking in containerized environments, including DNS, load balancing, and traffic routing.
Practical experience implementing and supporting event-driven systems at scale.
A proven ability to build and evolve API-driven infrastructure used by developers and systems alike.
Familiarity with observability tooling like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and structured logging practices.
Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Helm) and CI/CD pipelines.

Designing, deploying, and operating Kubernetes infrastructure for multi-tenant, distributed applications.
Implementing and optimizing the container and host networking stack, including CNI plugins, network policies, and service mesh integrations.
Building and evolving event-driven platforms using Kafka, NATS, or cloud-native pub/sub systems.
Developing and maintaining API interfaces (REST/gRPC) to power internal infrastructure services and developer tooling.
Driving improvements in system reliability, scalability, and observability through automation, instrumentation, and best practices.
Collaborating closely with SREs, security engineers, and backend developers to deliver infrastructure with strong operational maturity.
Contributing to and maintaining infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines for consistent, automated deployments.

Experience contributing to open-source infrastructure projects.
Familiarity with multi-cloud environments and hybrid cloud patterns.
Exposure to zero-downtime deployment strategies and advanced rollback mechanisms.