Senior Software Engineer
On-siteDublin, Leinster, Ireland
Job Summary
Design, build, and maintain Kubernetes Operators, controllers, CRDs, APIs, and automation using Go to turn complex operational processes into scalable, production-grade software. Automate provisioning, upgrades, scaling, recovery, and configuration workflows while developing strong automated test coverage and contributing to CI/CD, GitOps, and infrastructure automation. Integrate platform software across public, private, and on-premises environments, applying secure practices including RBAC, secrets management, and admission controls. Improve reliability through observability, troubleshooting, and post-incident improvements while mentoring engineers and establishing engineering standards. Work closely with Kubernetes architects, SRE, and cloud operations teams to support production environments in regulated or mission-critical settings.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in software, platform, cloud, DevOps, infrastructure automation, or SRE engineering
- Strong production development experience with Go
- Hands-on experience building Kubernetes Operators, controllers, CRDs, admission webhooks, or similar Kubernetes-native software
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes APIs, reconciliation patterns, RBAC, finalizers, status conditions, and object lifecycle
- Experience supporting production Kubernetes environments and distributed systems
- Strong knowledge of automated testing, CI/CD, GitOps, Helm, Linux, containers, networking, storage, and Kubernetes troubleshooting
- Experience applying Kubernetes security practices
- Strong communication skills
- Experience mentoring or influencing other engineers
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with technologies such as Kubebuilder, Operator SDK, controller-runtime, Terraform, Argo CD, Flux, EKS, AKS, GKE, Prometheus, Grafana, Istio, Linkerd, or Cilium
- Experience in regulated or mission-critical environments
- Relevant Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud DevOps, or Linux certifications
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