We are looking for a Platform Engineer (m/f/d). You will be a key member of a tight-knit group of talented Engineers who are responsible for building the Giant Swarm Developer Platform. The specific team is using cutting-edge technologies including Kubernetes operators and Cluster API to realize the platform's cluster management and scaling capabilities on AWS and Azure.
Giant Swarm is a fast-growing open-source infrastructure management platform used by modern enterprises. Our vision is to empower developers around the world to ship great products.The team is responsible for cluster management on AWS and Azure, using Cluster API and our own open source operators to build certain features. We develop and maintain features for those operators, including feature work on the upstream projects. We also develop solutions for long-term projects and goals of customers (for example: cost-effective cluster scaling with Karpenter).To keep up our high code quality, you ensure writing unit tests and end-to-end tests along with feature code.You help create and test releases for each cloud platform. Releases bundle upgrades of Kubernetes and other software, and ensure a smooth rollout of major platform feature additions or changes to customers.You take part in our on-call rotation for alerts and customer incidents. We keep our shifts quiet by fixing repeating problems long-term or communicating with customers to address specific issues such as misconfigurations.You help with customer support requests and incidents, for instance by finding and solving problems on production clusters.Onboarding of new customers, for example by preparing infrastructure like management clusters.You work independently on assigned tasks, asking questions and communicating actively with team members and other teams in case of questions and decision points.You have experience with Go and at least one other programming language, and a strong software engineering background.You have worked extensively and gained operational experience with Kubernetes and at least one of the cloud platforms AWS and Azure.You are an experienced Linux user.You are used to deploying to production multiple times a day, and love to automate all the things.We – and our customers – are currently distributed (mostly) around Europe. Your main time zone should be UTC +/- 2.We are very active in the Cloud Native / Kubernetes space. If you are as well – or just love giving talks – that will be a perfect addition.