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Sr. Software Engineer - Kubernetes

Armada· R&D - Engineering
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Thiruvananthapuramfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior Platform Engineer role focused on designing, building, and operating software and platform capabilities for Armada's distributed edge computing infrastructure, primarily using Linux, Kubernetes, Go, and Python. Hands-on, with emphasis on platform engineering over pure operations.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain platform services, controllers, operators, and automation frameworks using Go and Python.
  • Build internal tools and APIs that simplify provisioning, lifecycle management, observability, and operations of edge infrastructure.
  • Develop software to automate infrastructure workflows, hardware lifecycle management, cluster operations, and fleet-wide orchestration.
  • Contribute to platform architecture, technical standards, and engineering best practices.
  • Design and implement self-healing and autonomous operational capabilities.
  • Debug and optimize Linux systems across compute, storage, networking, and container workloads.
  • Investigate complex performance issues involving CPU scheduling, memory management, I/O subsystems, networking, filesystems, and containers.
  • Analyze kernel and userspace behavior using tools such as perf, eBPF, strace, tcpdump, bpftrace, and system profiling utilities.
  • Drive platform reliability through deep understanding of Linux internals and operating system behavior.
  • Participate in root cause analysis of production incidents involving operating systems, containers, and distributed systems.
  • Architect, deploy, and manage highly available Kubernetes environments across edge and cloud infrastructure.
  • Build and maintain Kubernetes operators, controllers, CRDs, admission webhooks, and platform extensions.
  • Implement scalable networking, storage, security, and observability solutions for Kubernetes.
  • Optimize cluster performance, resource utilization, and workload scheduling in resource-constrained edge environments.
  • Drive Infrastructure-as-Code initiatives using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and GitOps methodologies.
  • Design and maintain observability platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and centralized logging solutions.
  • Establish operational excellence through automation, monitoring, incident response, and postmortem processes.
  • Collaborate with software, infrastructure, security, and product teams to deliver reliable platform capabilities.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and continuously improve operational maturity through automation.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 7+ years of experience in systems engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure software, or related fields.
  • Strong software development experience in Go and/or Python, including building production services and automation systems.
  • Deep understanding of Linux operating systems and systems internals.
  • Strong understanding of Linux process management, scheduling, memory management, filesystems, and networking; TCP/IP, DNS, routing, VPNs, load balancing, and distributed systems fundamentals; Containers and container runtimes.
  • Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture and operations.
  • Hands-on experience building and operating production Kubernetes environments.
  • Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale.
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across software, operating systems, networking, and infrastructure.

Skills

Required:GoPythonLinux internalsKubernetes
Last updated Jul 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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