Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Stacklok is a company co-founded by the creators of Kubernetes, focused on building infrastructure for enterprises to securely adopt AI technologies. As a Senior Software Engineer on the core platform team, you will design and implement subsystems for their enterprise AI platform, ensuring reliability and scalability for production environments.
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
Skills
- 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
Benefits
- Equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible PTO and paid holidays
- Paid parental leave
- A flexible, hybrid-or-remote work environment
- Team offsites in unique destinations to collaborate and connect in person
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