Datum
Senior Engineer - Kubernetes
Remote (US) · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 181 days ago
GoRustDistributed SystemsAlgorithmsGitPostgreSQLElasticsearchAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformCI/CDPrometheusGrafanaGraphQLTest AutomationTCP/IPLoad BalancingLeadershipCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- You'll work extensively with distributed systems, vendor APIs, networking protocols, software-defined networking, and cloud-native infrastructure while solving complex orchestration challenges across multiple cloud providers and edge locations.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and run Datum's core orchestration stack
- Build customer-facing solutions to help our alt-cloud ecosystem thrive
- Design distributed solutions that scale from startup to hyperscale usage patterns
- Implement intelligent traffic routing, load balancing, and failover
- Build observability, monitoring, and diagnostic tools for complex environments
- Optimize control plane performance for AI workloads and high-bandwidth applications with our network team
- Drive technical networking decisions in collaboration with our open-source community
- Maintain high code quality standards and documentation for network APIs
- Design networking solutions that integrate seamlessly with Kubernetes and AI patterns
- Build network policies and security frameworks for multi-tenant cloud environments
Nice to have
- 6+ years of large-scale production systems running Kubernetes with security as a first principle
- Strong experience with Kubernetes patterns and APIs, having written custom resources, controllers, and preferably exposure to kubebuilder
- Strong experience with distributed systems design, security, auth, consensus algorithms, async reconciliation, and fault tolerance
- Experience modeling data in Kubernetes, or transferable knowledge from RDBMS, GraphQL, information retrieval
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes networking, CNI plugins, and service mesh architectures
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Flux, Terraform, Pulumi) for provisioning
- Understanding of edge computing, CDN architectures, and global traffic management
- Familiarity with SRv6, eBPF, DPDK, VPP, mpTCP and other advanced networking technologies would be a huge plus
Skills
- of applications, services, networks, and people.
- It's more secure, more operable, and even more enjoyable.
- Still interested?
- Cloudflare, AWS, GCP, Azure, multi-cloud networking
- Contributing to Datum's public networking repositories with transparent development
- Engaging with the community through GitHub issues, RFCs, and technical discussions
- Speaking at networking conferences and writing technical blog posts
Company info
- Partner with leadership to advance projects with key customers, partners, and suppliers
This listing is sourced directly from Datum's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.