[Hiring] Staff Platform Infrastructure Engineer @Collibra

Join Collibra's Platform Infrastructure team and help build the cloud foundation for all Collibra products. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Platform Infrastructure, your contribution is critical as we evolve our multi-cloud environment, including Kubernetes, Istio, WAFs, and Golang automation to drive product innovation and reliability. We foster a remote-first, geographically diverse culture of shared learning and continuous improvement, offering a supportive environment to grow your skills and make a tangible impact.

• Lead the technical design and architecture of platform services, with a focus on networking, service mesh (Istio), and service-to-service communication.
• Design, develop, and manage Kubernetes Operators in Golang, custom tooling, and our Istio service mesh to automate and enhance platform capabilities.
• Partner with product teams to co-design infrastructure solutions that improve velocity and reliability while efficiently serving our developers.
• Engineer the platform's use of our observability stack (metrics, logs, traces), define SLOs, and implement DevSecOps best practices, including WAF configuration and management.
• Mentor other engineers, champion technical excellence, and drive cloud cost optimization through automation.

• Production experience managing infrastructure on a major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes and service mesh technologies (preferably Istio).
• Strong understanding of cloud networking concepts (VPCs, routing, load balancing, WAFs, network policies).
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and operational tooling in Golang.
• Experience supporting stateful applications like GraphDB and / or Kafka.
• Familiarity with cloud security principles (IAM, security groups).
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent working experience.

• Critical thinker who skillfully analyzes complex distributed systems, including intricate network flows.
• A proactive learner, curious about evolving technologies in cloud, container orchestration, and service mesh.
• Open-minded and approach problems from an assumption of positive intent and demonstrate emotional intelligence.
• Able to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences and identify opportunities for simplification and automation.
• Able to work with a high degree of care and independence.

• Within your first month: you will Integrate with the team, understand our architecture, and make your first platform contribution.
• Within your third month: you will be actively shipping platform tooling that delivers measurable value to the engineering organization.
• Within your sixth month: you will become a go-to expert and steward for a key platform component, such as our service mesh, guiding its design and implementation.