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This role spans multiple related teams and domains, ensuring that platform capabilities evolve in a consistent, scalable, and strategically useful way.\nThis role combines hands-on technical depth with broad architectural leadership. You will define multi-year direction across a platform pillar, lead major cross-team initiatives, and establish standards and engineering practices that are adopted widely. You will work through influence rather than formal authority, aligning teams around a common direction while remaining grounded in the realities of implementation and operations.\nAs a Senior Staff engineer, you are expected to solve ambiguous, high-leverage problems that cut across systems and teams. You will identify systemic technical risks, reduce fragmentation, and help multiple teams make better decisions by creating clarity, shared patterns, and a stronger architectural foundation.\nWhat You’ll be Doing (Responsibilities)\nPillar Architecture & Roadmap\nDefine and evolve the technical roadmap for a broad platform pillar spanning multiple related teams or domains\nLead major architectural initiatives that affect multiple subsystems, services, or platform capabilities\nEnsure architectural decisions made across teams contribute to a coherent long-term platform direction\nIdentify systemic weaknesses, duplication, and architectural drift, and drive corrective action before they become entrenched\nTranslate strategic product, infrastructure, and platform goals into clear technical direction for multiple teams\nStandards, Patterns & Governance\nDefine and maintain pillar-wide standards for:\ncontroller and operator design\nAPI and CRD design\ncompatibility, versioning, and deprecation\nobservability, rollout, and operational behaviour\nEnsure consistency across teams in Kubernetes usage, reconciliation semantics, service boundaries, and failure handling\nCreate shared abstractions, reference implementations, and engineering guardrails that increase consistency without adding unnecessary bureaucracy\nReview designs across the pillar to prevent divergence, local optimisation, and accidental coupling between teams\nHigh-Leverage Technical Leadership\nDrive ambiguous, high-impact technical work that does not fit neatly within a single team’s ownership\nUnblock multiple teams by resolving difficult technical trade-offs and clarifying architectural direction\nAct as a senior technical advisor to engineering leadership for the platform pillar\nMaintain enough hands-on engagement to validate major design choices, guide implementation, and retain technical credibility\nImprove the effectiveness of teams through strong technical writing, design reviews, and decision-making frameworks\nMentoring & Capability Building\nMentor Staff and Senior engineers, helping grow technical leadership capability across the pillar\nRaise the overall technical bar through architecture reviews, coaching, and knowledge sharing\nHelp shape how technical leadership operates across multiple teams by modelling strong judgement, influence, and clarity\nPartner with managers and senior leaders to identify capability gaps and strengthen the organisation’s ability to execute complex technical work\nAbout You (Skills / Qualifications)\nDemonstrated experience designing and evolving large-scale Kubernetes-native platform systems across multiple teams or domains\nProven ability to define and lead architecture across a broad platform area with significant ambiguity and long time horizons\nStrong track record of creating leverage through standards, roadmaps, shared abstractions, and cross-team technical leadership\nDeep expertise in distributed systems, Kubernetes internals, control plane architecture, and production operational design\nExperience leading major technical initiatives that span multiple teams and require sustained influence without formal authority\nStrong judgement in balancing immediate delivery, platform consistency, operational realities, and long-term maintainability\nDemonstrated ability to identify systemic technical risks and address them through architecture, standards, and technical alignment\nExcellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to drive adoption of technical direction across a broad engineering area\nStrong mentoring track record, particularly in helping senior engineers grow into Staff-level technical leaders\nStrong grounding in Linux, networking, and infrastructure fundamentals, including sufficient depth to reason through complex cross-layer behaviour\nWorking knowledge of GPU-backed platforms or AI workload constraints is highly valuable\nThe range below reflects the base salary for the position. 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