CloudQuery is a growing Series A startup in the data space and the creator of the open-source, high-performance ELT framework powered by Apache Arrow. CloudQuery enables data movement for SREs, platform teams and security teams in Fortune 500 companies.
We're looking for a skilled Senior Backend Engineer to join our core team. In this role, you will focus on building a Kubernetes-based data pipeline product that customers can self-deploy into their own cloud environments, working within a product-driven team to streamline deployments, optimize infrastructure as code, and elevate our platform's reliability
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with the engineering team, CEO, and Product team to design and implement new features to our self-hosted and hosted cloud governance products.
- Develop and maintain deployment processes that enable customers to self-host our product on Kubernetes clusters, or us to manage it for them.
- Build, automate, and manage infrastructure with CloudFormation, Terraform, and other IAC tools.
- Lead features end-to-end from RFC → Implementation → Testing → Documentation → Release.
- Implement SRE best practices, focusing on automation, monitoring, and resilience to ensure the scalability and reliability of our platform, regardless of where it is deployed.
- Contribute to our managed services and help optimize deployment for both self-hosted and managed environments.
- Work directly with customers to iron out issues during deployment, and use this feedback to improve the product.
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on backend infrastructure and orchestration.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes (K8s) deployments and containerization.
- Hands-on expertise in infrastructure-as-code tools like CloudFormation and Terraform.
- Solid understanding of cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure) and managing infrastructure within these environments.
- Experience implementing SRE best practices, with a focus on automation, monitoring, and incident management.
- Strong written and spoken English to produce clear, detailed documentation.
- Familiarity with Go is a plus.
- Remote-first company with flexible working arrangements.
- Competitive salary with substantial equity upside.
- A collaborative, remote-friendly culture with regular team events to stay connected.
- High-impact role with ample opportunities for career growth.
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What We Do
The open source high-performance data integration platform for security and infrastructure teams.
https://github.com/cloudquery/cloudquery
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