Back-End & Infra Engineer (Kubernetes & Node.js)
Who We’re Looking For
- 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Infrastructure or Platform Engineering
- Strong backend engineering skills: API design, Postgres, Kafka/Nats
- Node.js/Go/Python background
- Experience with AWS/GCP/Azure
- Advanced experience with Kubernetes, including creating tools, controllers, or operators that extend its capabilities
- Experience with all the standard Kubernetes tools:
- Networking (ingress controllers, CoreDNS, external-dns, AWS LB, oauth2-proxy)
- Secret management (Vault, External Secrets)
- Cluster autoscaling and resource tuning (Karpenter, VPA, goldilocks, KEDA)
- Storage provisioning
- Experience with Helm charts and GitOps
- Experience working with and maintaining large k8s clusters: 1000 nodes, 30k+ pods
- Excellent system design and problem‑solving skills
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities across multiple teams
- Hands‑on mindset, comfortable working in complex and evolving environments
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and maintain the control plane that powers hundreds of dynamic developer sandboxes
- Develop backend tooling and services that automate sandbox creation, orchestration, and lifecycle management
- Productize and provide infrastructure as a platform including DBs, caches, object storage and queueing systems
- Scale & tune the cluster to provide capacity for volatile workloads. You’ll become hands on with Karpenter/VPA/KEDA policies, right‑sizing, pod density, bin‑packing, and scheduling strategies for diverse, bursty workloads
- Constantly track and optimize costs to be efficient. At our k8s scale all tiny decisions matter, from compute to storage and data transfer
- Own the networking setup to mimic what we have in production but pair it with greater DevEx at scale of hundreds of sandboxes – traffic routing and interception, ingress tuning, serving assets
- Implement and evolve observability within sandboxes
- Partner with Sandboxes SRE team to ensure uptime and reliability of hundreds of sandboxes daily
- Work with Deel engineering to improve their DevEx and productize day‑to‑day needs into self‑service platform
Extra Brownie Points If You…
- Have built internal developer platforms (in‑house or with tools like Okteto, Gitpod, Crafting) or Kubernetes operators
- Have production experience with Postgres Operators, e.g. CloudNativePG or Zalando
- Have multi‑region and multi‑cloud experience
Total Rewards Our workforce deserves fair and competitive pay that meets them where they are. With scalable benefits, rewards, and perks, our total rewards programs reflect our commitment to inclusivity and access for all. Some things you’ll enjoy
- Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
- Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
- The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access
At Deel, we’re an equal‑opportunity employer that values diversity and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of race, religion, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy or maternity or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Deel will provide accommodations on request throughout the recruitment, selection and assessment process for applicants with disabilities. If you require accommodations, please inform our Talent Acquisition Team via this link and a team member will be in touch to ensure your equal participation. If you have difficulty accessing the form, please email at [email protected]. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job