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The learning from these relationships drive upstream improvements to the runtime and help us develop our proprietary enterprise control plane.\nWhy Join Pipekit?\nWe're growing fast: Four of the largest financial and fintech institutions in the Americas trust us with their most critical systems, and Pipekit is #1 in the Argo ecosystem for commits landed over the past six months.\nWe’re remote-first: Work from anywhere between the US East Coast and Eastern European time zones, including their Southern Hemisphere equivalents.\nWe’re innovating at the edge: Work on cutting edge open source Kubernetes native workflow orchestration trusted by teams at CERN, NASA, and many others.\nWhat You’ll Do\nOwn and drive impact across our product and the open source Argo ecosystem.\n\nMaintain and evolve Argo Workflows and Argo Events, managing both PRs and major architectural decisions.\n\nBuild and shape our enterprise product with a premium developer experience at its core.\n\nTurn ideas into features: Help shape our roadmap, identify user pain points, and ship critical features.\n\nEngage with the community: Talk to customers, collaborate with OSS contributors, and be part of an on-call rotation (mostly during working hours).\n\nSpeak at conferences like KubeCon and ArgoCon, and help expand our voice across the cloud-native world.\n\nWhat Makes You a Great Fit\nWe're looking for T-shaped engineers: deep in one area, ideally distributed systems, and broad across many.\nMust-haves:\nStrong programming skills in a statically typed language, such as Go, Java, Rust, or C++\n\nSolid understanding of Kubernetes\n\nYou’re a self-starter who can take a rough idea and drive it to completion\n\nPassion for building production-grade systems and working cross-functionally\n\nExcellent written communication, whether GitHub comments, docs, or blog posts\n\nCustomer-first mindset, with a focus on delivering real value\n\nNice-to-haves:\nExperience with Go microservices, TypeScript/React, or Python\n\nExperience managing cloud services, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP\n\nOSS maintenance experience, contributing code, and engaging with the community\n\nHow you work:\nYou balance shipping fast with maintaining code quality. 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