Software Engineer Kubernetes (Remote)

Company Description

At Kubermatic, we believe that businesses should focus on their core purpose: writing groundbreaking applications, not operations. In line with our commitment to make Kubernetes as easy as possible, we help IT teams worldwide to fully automate their Kubernetes and cloud native operations across multi-cloud, edge, and on-prem.

As one of the top corporate contributors to the Kubernetes Project, we develop enterprise-grade software solutions and provide professional services and support to safely navigate and accelerate your cloud native transformation. Our open source Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform makes it easy to operate thousands of Kubernetes clusters on any infrastructure.

If you are looking for a neatly structured environment, we are just not a good match. But if you are thrilled by the prospect of joining a technology start-up with a lot of room for your own ideas and personal growth, we definitely should at least have a chat.

Job Description

What you will be doing

• Work with cutting-edge technologies (Go, Kubernetes, Prometheus) to build our products like Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform
• Integrate different provider like AWS, Azure, GCP, Openstack into our platform
• Create E2E test and automate workflows for CI/CD
• Build the infrastructure behind high-availability services
• Design and implement new services and features
• Contribute your knowledge in roadmap and feature discussions
• Develop features and improvements to the Kubermatic product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain in a fast-paced, iterative environment
• Advocate for improvements to the product
• Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment; maintain and advocate for these standards through code review
• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team (“technical debt”), propose and implement solutions
• Represent Kubermatic and its values in public communication around specific projects and community contributions
• Confidently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members; collaborate with the team on larger projects

Qualifications

What we are looking for

• You demonstrate skills in software development, with proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Go, Python, or Java
• You have experience in Kubernetes controllers and operators development
• You have a practical understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles, with experience in tools like Terraform or Crossplane
• You are comfortable with distributed systems, container technologies, Kubernetes and the cloud native stack
• You value pragmatism and result-oriented team and project work
• You have demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• You have strong coding skills and experience in writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code for cloud infrastructure tasks
• You have a very good command of English
• Nice to have (one or more):
  • Experience in Kubernetes API internals and KCP
  • Experience in Software Defined Networking

Additional information

What you get in return

• A dynamic and still laid-back team (yes, you can combine that)
• Agile development practices, cutting edge technologies (Kubernetes, Go, and Prometheus) and an up-to-date stack
• Full support with getting the training and certification you need to do a good job (CKA, LInux Foundation Certification…) and conference opportunities
• Obviously: flexible working hours, responsibility, free choice of IDE and OS,…
• For remote workers: a great infrastructure set-up and regular hackathons and events in Hamburg, so that you won’t feel any difference. Ok, besides free coffee 😉

Anything else?

• We love community events – so you will definitely enjoy our meetups and our own community conferences like ContainerDays
• As a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation we are able to offer certified courses and first class information about what’s coming up next in the Kubernetes ecosystem. And if you want to contribute, you are welcome to engage at CNCF projects or special interest groups