Staff Engineer

Description

Our Staff Engineer is a lead member of the engineering staff working across the PaaS Serverless organization to deliver a friction-free experience for our PaaS customers. You will partner with Managers, Sr. Staff, and Engineers to innovate and build new systems, enhance existing ones, and identify new opportunities to solve critical problems at enterprise scale.

The ideal candidate brings a deep understanding of Cloud technologies, risk analysis, engineering best practices, and strategic planning with the ability to design and implement highly scalable, available, and reliable systems with effective observability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a senior or lead engineering role
• 4+ years of experience in open-source technologies such as Kubernetes
• Proven experience designing and operating large-scale PaaS or cloud-native platforms in production
• Deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes and the broader cloud-native ecosystem (Knative, KEDA, ArgoCD, Istio, Service Mesh)
• Experience with Azure Functions, Azure App Services, AKS, or serverless compute platforms
• Strong proficiency in one or more languages: Go, Python, C#.NET, Java or PowerShell
• Experience with GitOps and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical design, architecture reviews, and cross-team engineering initiatives
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on reliability, scalability, and observability
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, or Copilot)
• Experience with FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization strategies

Pay

$110,000.00 - $230,000.00