Senior Software Engineer, Cluster & Lifecycle (EMEA)

Overview

Senior Software Engineer on the Qdrant Cloud Cluster & Lifecycle team, building features for cluster provisioning, scaling, upgrades, backups and restores, and disaster recovery.

What you'll do

• Design and build features in the Kubernetes operator and control-plane services, in Go.
• Own the full cluster lifecycle: provisioning, scaling, upgrades, configuration changes, backups and restores.
• Design APIs and integrations that let people, and more and more AI agents, manage Qdrant Cloud.
• Close the feature gaps between Hybrid Cloud and managed cloud, and extend Private Cloud.
• Make cluster operations safe by default: controlled rollouts, minimal disruption to customers and clear failure handling.
• Take part in on-call for the services you build, including incident response and root cause analysis.
• Work closely with Operations, Platform, Billing & IAM, Product and Support teams.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• A good part of that experience on infrastructure, platform or distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in Go.
• Experience building Kubernetes operators, controllers or similar orchestration services (reconciliation loops, retries, recovering from partial failures).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems: consistency, failure handling, replication.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Experience designing APIs (gRPC or REST) and with CI/CD and automated testing.
• Comfortable participating in on-call rotations and handling production incidents.
• Ownership mindset and clear communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience running stateful workloads or databases on Kubernetes.
• Background in database, storage or DBaaS products.
• Experience with backup, replication or disaster recovery systems.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or similar tooling.
• Contributions to open-source projects, especially in the Kubernetes ecosystem.

Details

• Remote, EMEA.
• Remote-first, international team with flexible working hours and an async-friendly culture.