[Hiring] Staff/Senior Software Engineer @Qdrant

Role Description

As a Staff/Senior Software Engineer on the Platform team, you will work on the core cloud platform that enables all other engineering teams at Qdrant. You’ll design and evolve shared services, control-plane components, and internal APIs that power our managed cloud offering and support enterprise-grade deployments. This role is about building platform primitives and abstractions, not day-to-day operations. You’ll focus on reducing complexity, improving developer productivity, and driving architectural evolution across the cloud platform.

• Design and evolve core platform services and internal APIs consumed by multiple teams
• Drive architectural initiatives such as gRPC migration, eventing/pub-sub foundations, and platform refactors
• Own and improve control-plane and cluster-api components
• Build platform abstractions that reduce operational and cognitive load for other teams
• Write production-grade Go code for platform services and internal tooling
• Collaborate closely with Regions & Clusters, Resilience, and Features teams to enable delivery through platform primitives
• Improve platform scalability, reliability, and developer experience through thoughtful design
• Support production systems and incident response when needed, with a focus on long-term fixes

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer working on platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems
• Strong proficiency in Go and Python, or deep expertise in one with willingness to work regularly with both
• Solid experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and API design
• Experience building and operating production systems used by other engineers or teams
• Comfortable working cross-team and driving technical alignment
• Ownership mindset and clear communication skills

Requirements

• Experience with gRPC, event-driven architectures, or control-plane systems
• Familiarity with Kubernetes operators or cluster-level abstractions
• Background in SaaS, database, or systems-level product companies
• Experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Contributions to open-source projects

Benefits

• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits
• Fully remote setup with flexible working hours
• High-impact role with strong ownership and architectural influence
• Opportunity to work on a core platform used across the entire company
• Clear growth path toward Staff Engineer or Architecture roles

Company Description

Qdrant is powering the next generation of AI applications with advanced, high-performant vector similarity search technology. Our flagship product is the leading open-source Vector Search Engine.