Who is Recruiting from Scratch :
Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire.
Our client is a publicly listed company building out an entirely new team.
About the role
The Highside Substrate team is responsible for our client's core production infrastructure — 100s of K8s clusters — from on-prem to the major cloud hyperscalers in classified USG environments.
You will design and build managed Kubernetes product offerings across all these environments.
You and your team will be responsible for bootstrapping and operating the entire highside fleet of K8s clusters with zero manual steps by building industry-leading tooling and contributing to core CNCF components. You will also be responsible for ensuring scale, stability, and security across a matrix of compliance regimes and hosting infrastructure types. Your team culture emphasizes engineering rigor and operational excellence at scale. This means issues in production should be pre-empted and deeply root-caused, and investments in automation and self-healing systems are key.
If you’re excited about infrastructure at scale and working with Kubernetes, this is the right role for you.
Responsibilities
- Build automation and establish standards for operating K8s securely at scale with zero manual ops overhead.
- Drive innovation through the adoption of novel K8s features and CNCF tools, making upstream contributions as needed.
- Design the next generation of infrastructure through a deep understanding of internal systems and CNCF standards.
- Deliver a container runtime to challenging new classified environment types - new clouds, on-premise, edge devices.
Tech stack
Kubernetes, Golang, Terraform, Docker, CNCF components, Networking fundamentals.
Candidate requirements
- Candidate must have an active Security Clearance (Secret or TS).
- 2 - 6 years of experience with K8s.
- Experience building performance-optimized systems.
- Shows "Extreme ownership" – has owned core systems, been at a single company long enough to really own big pieces of the tech and learned all the hard-won lessons that come with it.
- An understanding of the tradeoffs that fast-moving startups need to make, and a willingness to be flexible in design.
- Product-minded backend engineer.
- Experience building complex backend systems, managing infrastructure, doing some devops.
The salary range is $135,000 - $300,000 + Equity.
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