# Senior Software Engineer, Cluster & Lifecycle (EMEA)

Qdrant is an open-source vector search engine powering the next generation of AI applications, from semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to AI agents and real-time recommendations. Trusted by global leaders like Canva, HubSpot, Tripadvisor, Bosch, and Deutsche Telekom, we’re building the retrieval infrastructure layer for modern AI. Recently raising $50M in Series B funding, we are growing rapidly and committed to transforming how AI understands and interacts with data. As a remote-first company, we believe diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences fuel innovation. Here, you’ll own meaningful work, tackle challenges, and grow alongside passionate individuals dedicated to shaping the future of AI. The Team and Your Impact Qdrant Cloud is growing fast, and most of the new product features on our 2027 roadmap land with this team. That means a lot of new work: cross-region replication, disaster recovery and new ways to manage clusters. This role is for engineers who like hard distributed systems problems, write Go every day, and want their code to manage real customer databases in production. What You Will Own Design and build features in our Kubernetes ope

- **Id**: 4283722
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/qdrant-senior-software-engineer-cluster-lifecycle-emea>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_regions
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: DE, FR, AT, BE, BG, HR, CY, CZ, DK, FI, HU, IE, IT, NL, PL, RO, ES, SE, EE, GR, LV, LT, LU, MT, PT, SK, SI
- **Hiring countries total**: 27
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T19:16:16Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T21:09:45Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3831
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Flexible schedule, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Vector Search & RAG

## Company

- **Id**: 38017
- **Name**: Qdrant
- **Domain**: qdrant.tech
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/qdrant>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Canva** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Qdrant** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Semantic Search** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: yes
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: yes
- **Prometheus** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Germany** — Iso: DE; Kind: country
- **France** — Iso: FR; Kind: region
- **Austria** — Iso: AT; Kind: region
- **Belgium** — Iso: BE; Kind: region
- **Bulgaria** — Iso: BG; Kind: region
- **Croatia** — Iso: HR; Kind: region
- **Cyprus** — Iso: CY; Kind: region
- **Czech Republic** — Iso: CZ; Kind: region
- **Denmark** — Iso: DK; Kind: region
- **Finland** — Iso: FI; Kind: region
- **Hungary** — Iso: HU; Kind: region
- **Ireland** — Iso: IE; Kind: region
- **Italy** — Iso: IT; Kind: region
- **Netherlands** — Iso: NL; Kind: region
- **Poland** — Iso: PL; Kind: region
- **Romania** — Iso: RO; Kind: region
- **Spain** — Iso: ES; Kind: country
- **Sweden** — Iso: SE; Kind: region
- **Estonia** — Iso: EE; Kind: region
- **Greece** — Iso: GR; Kind: region
- **Latvia** — Iso: LV; Kind: region
- **Lithuania** — Iso: LT; Kind: region
- **Luxembourg** — Iso: LU; Kind: region
- **Malta** — Iso: MT; Kind: region
- **Portugal** — Iso: PT; Kind: region
- **Slovakia** — Iso: SK; Kind: region
- **Slovenia** — Iso: SI; Kind: region

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T21:09:45Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 54
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T22:33:55Z

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