[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer Platform @Qdrant

Role Description

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Platform team, you will work on the core cloud platform that enables all other engineering teams at Qdrant. 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

• A remote-first, international team working on cutting-edge AI infrastructure.
• A competitive salary with additional perks.
• Flexible working hours and async-friendly culture.
• High ownership and real impact.
• Open-source, engineering-driven culture.
• Choose your own laptop equipment.
• For US-based candidates, a comprehensive benefits package including 401k match, health, dental, and vision insurance, plus flexible PTO policy.