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Sr. Software Engineer - Platform

Stacklok· Engineering
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Hybrid (North America (Remote))$189k - $231kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior Engineer on Stacklok's core platform team responsible for designing and delivering platform subsystems for Stacklok Enterprise, the production distribution of ToolHive, and contributing to open source MCP tooling.

Responsibilities

  • Own the design and implementation of platform subsystems end to end, from technical design through production and ongoing improvement.
  • Anchor meaningful projects, making the design tradeoffs that balance reliability, scalability, and time to market.
  • Write production-ready code aligned with the overall system architecture, with observability, testing, and error handling built in.
  • Produce clear design docs and work breakdowns that the team can plan and build against.
  • Mentor SWE and SWE II engineers and contribute to a strong code review culture across the team.
  • Contribute to technical decisions alongside technical leads, product, and engineering leadership on behalf of the team.
  • Contribute to the open source ToolHive codebase and collaborate with community contributors on shared work.

Qualifications

  • Deep proficiency in Go, with a proven track record building production-grade backend or platform systems.
  • Knowledge of Kubernetes and container technologies, including operators, isolation, and networking in production environments.
  • Proven track record designing and shipping complete systems end to end, from architecture through production and iteration.
  • Demonstrated experience as a tech lead: mentoring engineers, driving code review, and raising the quality of a team's work.
  • Experience designing for reliability and observability, building systems with monitoring, testing, and evaluation in mind.
  • Proven track record building or operating platform services such as gateways, registries, runtimes, or deployment tooling. Familiarity with MCP is a plus.
  • AI-first mindset: integrates AI tools into development and helps improve how the team ships, turning AI-assisted workflows into repeatable velocity gains.
  • Communication: excellent written and verbal communication, able to explain complex technical ideas clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Startup mentality and intrinsic motivation: self-directed and hands-on, thrives in fast-moving, ambiguous environments and drives clarity through action.

Skills

Required:GoKubernetesSystem designLeadership / mentoringReliability & observability

Benefits

  • competitive compensation and equity
  • comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • flexible PTO and paid holidays
  • paid parental leave
  • flexible, hybrid-or-remote work environment
  • team offsites in unique destinations
Last updated Aug 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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Securely connect AI agents to critical business data and systems. Run and manage MCP servers on Kubernetes. Stacklok's Enterprise Agent Platform simplifies your AI native journey.

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