Senior Backend Engineer, Cloud Platform

Description

About the company

Don't wait for the future of infrastructure. Be part of it.

The company is the AI Infrastructure Identity Company. We're solving one of the hardest problems in security: giving every human, machine, workload, and AI agent a cryptographically secured identity, improving engineering velocity while maintaining security. We make trusted computing simple. This gives you the freedom, power, and autonomy to build and innovate with confidence.

Remote-first and globally distributed, we work with companies like Nasdaq, DoorDash, and Elastic to secure infrastructure for an AI world.

About the Role

The company Cloud Platform team architects a performant and scalable cloud platform that realizes the promise of the company as a SaaS product. The team is focused on scalability, security, and analytics of the company on our Cloud platform. They build multi-cluster Kubernetes controllers, networking services, platform monitoring tools, and more.

We strongly encourage you to explore our GitHub Repo to get a taste of what we are building.

Responsibilities

• You will work on problems ranging from networking and performance to security and integrations with external systems.
• Design, develop, and ship outstanding, high-quality products. A sample of potential projects:
• BEAMS, Cloud Hypervisor-based, Kata container, agentic runtime platform
• Multi-cluster Kubernetes operators for managing the company at scale
• Zero-downtime upgrades for services with long-lived tunnels
• Write most of the code in Go.
• Closely collaborate with other teams at the company
• Grow your technical expertise.

Requirements

• Willingness to work collaboratively with the company's engineers on coding challenge in Go as part of the interview process.
• Extensive Go experience
• Strong expertise with Kubernetes, including experience writing controllers and extending Kubernetes via APIs.
• Extensive experience developing scalable, reliable, and performant systems.
• Strong software-related security experience and strong interest in security space.
• Proficiency with AWS and other cloud services.
• Linux systems engineering experience.
• Networking experience.
• Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to master new technologies.
• Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset.
• Significant contributions in Open Source is a big plus.
• Knowledge of Envoy and Cilium
• Cryptography engineering experience