Staff Software Engineer - Kubernetes/ArgoCD

Overview :

We are seeking a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer with deep expertise in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Platforms, Kubernetes, and GitOps practices.

This role will architect, scale, and operate enterprise-grade Kubernetes platforms while driving reliability, scalability, automation, and operational excellence across critical enterprise applications and infrastructure.

What You'll Do :

DevOps & Platform Engineering :

- Design, build, and optimize scalable CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes-native platform solutions.

- Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and platform standardization initiatives.

- Improve developer experience through self-service infrastructure and deployment automation.

- Lead architecture discussions and establish Kubernetes and DevOps platform standards across engineering teams.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) :

- Define and champion reliability standards, SLAs, SLOs, and operational excellence frameworks.

- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvement programs.

- Drive performance optimization, scalability enhancements, capacity planning, and disaster recovery strategies.

- Build proactive monitoring, observability, and alerting capabilities to improve system health and availability.

GitOps & Automation :

- Architect and manage GitOps practices using ArgoCD for multi-cluster Kubernetes application delivery.

- Automate application deployment, configuration management, and environment provisioning.

- Establish deployment governance, release management processes, and operational controls.

Kubernetes & Cloud Infrastructure :

- Define and evolve enterprise Kubernetes platform architecture, standards, and multi-cluster/multi-region deployment strategies.

- Design, deploy, and operate production Kubernetes clusters at scale across cloud environments (EKS, AKS, GKE, or equivalent).

- Build and optimize containerized platform solutions using Docker and Kubernetes for high availability and performance.

- Lead adoption of Kubernetes-native tooling including Helm, Kustomize, operators, and service mesh technologies.

- Drive cluster lifecycle management including upgrades, autoscaling, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.

- Architect Kubernetes networking, ingress, storage (CSI), CNI, and workload isolation patterns.

- Establish Kubernetes security frameworks including RBAC, network policies, pod security standards, and secrets management.

- Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption using Terraform.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration :

- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across DevOps and platform teams.

- Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Security stakeholders.

- Participate in architecture reviews and technology roadmap discussions.

- Work closely with global teams across EMEA and US regions.

What We Are Looking For :

- 12+ years of experience in Software Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE.

- Strong hands-on expertise in DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, Infrastructure Automation, and Cloud Engineering.

- Proven experience implementing GitOps practices using ArgoCD.

- Deep expertise in Kubernetes platform architecture, cluster operations, and troubleshooting at enterprise scale.

- Expert-level hands-on experience with Kubernetes tooling such as Helm, Kustomize, kubectl, and cluster APIs.

- Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, ELK, or New Relic.

- Experience developing automation and operational tooling using Python, Shell, or Go.

- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and technical leadership skills.

- Ability to drive technical decisions, define Kubernetes platform roadmaps, and lead large-scale platform initiatives.

- Flexibility to collaborate with global stakeholders across multiple time zones.

Our Values :

If you want to know the heart of a company, take a look at their values. Ours unite us. They are what drive our success - and the success of our customers.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Skills

DevOps, Site Reliability, Kubernetes, CI/CD Pipeline, IAC Terraform, Python, Prometheus, Grafana, ARGO Tool, Cloud Infrastructure, Monitoring Tools