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This role operates beyond the boundaries of a single team, shaping how multiple teams build and evolve Kubernetes-native control plane software across a platform area.\nThis role combines deep hands-on engineering with technical leadership. You will define domain direction, make key architectural decisions, and create leverage through shared patterns, standards, and technical guidance. You will remain close enough to implementation to validate designs, unblock delivery, and ensure that technical direction is grounded in operational reality.\nAs a Staff engineer, you are expected to increase the effectiveness of multiple engineers and teams. You will take ownership of ambiguous technical problems within your domain, drive alignment across team boundaries, and help ensure that the systems built by different teams remain coherent, operable, and maintainable as the platform grows.\nWhat You’ll be Doing (Responsibilities)\nDomain Architecture & Technical Direction\nOwn and evolve the technical direction for a defined cloud-native platform domain, such as control plane orchestration, infrastructure lifecycle, platform APIs, or workload management\nDesign and review Kubernetes-native systems that span multiple components or teams within that domain\nMake architectural decisions that balance delivery needs, operational realities, and long-term maintainability\nResolve ambiguity in architecture, interfaces, and system boundaries for cross-team work\nAct as a technical escalation point for the most complex issues within the domain\nCross-Team Engineering Leverage\nDrive cross-team design for APIs, controllers, workflows, and operational behaviour within the domain\nEstablish shared patterns and standards for:\ncontroller and reconciliation design\nAPI and CRD modelling\nrollout safety and compatibility\nobservability and operational behaviour\nIdentify and correct technical divergence, overlapping abstractions, and avoidable coupling between systems\nCreate leverage through reference implementations, shared libraries, and common tooling where appropriate\nDelivery & Execution\nLead technically critical initiatives that span 2-4 teams or a defined platform area\nUnblock delivery by clarifying direction, reducing technical ambiguity, and resolving hard design problems\nContribute hands-on where necessary to validate patterns, de-risk complex implementation work, or accelerate critical delivery\nEnsure systems in the domain are designed to be observable, supportable, and safe to run in production\nMentoring & Influence\nMentor Senior and mid-level engineers in Kubernetes-native design, distributed systems thinking, and production engineering\nRaise engineering quality through code review, design review, and strong technical writing\nInfluence technical outcomes across teams without relying on formal authority\nWork closely with platform, infrastructure, and SRE stakeholders to ensure the domain evolves in a way that supports broader platform needs\nAbout You (Skills / Qualifications)\nDemonstrated experience designing and building Kubernetes-native systems, including controllers, operators, CRDs, and production reconciliation logic\nStrong track record of writing maintainable, testable, and resilient Go for long-lived distributed or control plane systems\nProven ability to define technical direction across a domain that spans multiple engineers or teams\nExperience driving cross-team architecture and resolving ambiguity in interfaces, ownership, and design\nDeep understanding of Kubernetes control plane patterns, distributed systems failure modes, and operational trade-offs\nExperience creating engineering leverage through standards, reusable components, technical guidance, and architectural clarity\nStrong judgement in balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform health\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to align multiple teams around a coherent technical direction\nSolid grounding in Linux, networking, and infrastructure fundamentals sufficient to debug cross-layer issues\nExperience mentoring other engineers and raising the technical quality of work beyond your immediate team\nThe range below reflects the base salary for the position. 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