Senior Software Engineer Platform

Overview

Senior Software Engineer for the Platform team, building core cloud platform services, shared components, and internal APIs that power Qdrant’s managed cloud offering and enterprise deployments.

What you'll do

• Design and evolve core platform services and internal APIs used by multiple teams.
• Lead architectural initiatives including gRPC migration, eventing/pub-sub foundations, and platform refactors.
• Own and improve control-plane and cluster-api components.
• Build platform abstractions to reduce operational and cognitive load for other teams.
• Write production-grade Go code for platform services and internal tooling.
• Collaborate with Regions & Clusters, Resilience, and Features teams using platform primitives.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer on platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in Go and Python, or deep expertise in one with willingness to work regularly with both.
• Solid experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and API design.
• Experience building and operating production systems used by other engineers or teams.
• Comfortable working cross-team and driving technical alignment.

Nice to have

• Experience with gRPC, event-driven architectures, or control-plane systems.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes operators or cluster-level abstractions.
• Experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Contributions to open-source projects.

Details

• Location: Germany.
• Remote-first company; job tag indicates remote (#LI-REMOTE).