Golang/Kubernetes Engineer, ArangoDB
Multi-model database for graphs, documents, and key values
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Multi-model database for graphs, documents, and key values
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
ArangoDB's mission is to enable businesses to build high-performance applications, providing developer resources, db architects and developer support.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of programming and Cloud experience
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes, CRDs and operators (deployments, custom resources like ArangoDeployment, ArangoBackup, ArangoLocalStorage, replication, etc.)
- Strong experience in Go (the operator is written in Go) plus solid understanding of concurrency, storage, and distributed system concerns
- Strong experience in Cloud solutions, especially AWS. AWS GovCloud is an additional point
- Proven background in designing and managing production-grade distributed databases or stateful systems, including storage management and data replication. (e.g., persistent volumes, snapshot/backup, failover, cluster scaling)
- Familiarity with storage concepts in Kubernetes: PersistentVolumes, PVCs, local storage, volume resizing, storage performance tuning
- Operational mindset: ability to ensure stability, handle upgrades/migrations, observability/metrics, and manage cluster lifecycle through automation and best practices
- Strong communication and leadership skills: able to drive technical discussions, review code, mentor contributors, write clear design documents and documentation for both internal and external users
- U.S. citizenship is required
- Active security clearance is preferred
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Engineer to lead development of the ArangoDB operator, responsible for ensuring robust lifecycle management, scaling, back-up, and replication capabilities for ArangoDB running on Kubernetes
- You will shape the architecture of core operator components, design and implement new features, influence best practices for deploying stateful systems on Kubernetes, and ensure that ArangoDB continues to meet enterprise-grade expectations for performance, consistency, and stability
- This is an opportunity to own a critical part of our ecosystem and directly impact how modern AI-driven applications run in production
- Lead the design and development of the ArangoDB Kubernetes Operator
- Own core operator architecture and implement features for lifecycle management, scaling, backup, and replication
- Ensure high availability, performance, and stability of ArangoDB on Kubernetes
- Define best practices for running stateful systems on Kubernetes
- Collaborate with engineering teams to align operator capabilities with enterprise and cloud requirements
- Troubleshoot complex issues across Kubernetes and distributed systems
- This role supports a U.S. Air Force project and requires U.S. citizenship
- Support extension of the solution into GovCloud (AWS)
Our take
ArangoDB is an open-source database system that creates products dedicated to simplifying the work practices of developers, architects, and data scientists. It allows businesses to store graph data natively across on-premises and cloud databases.
ArangoDB Oasis, arguably the company's most popular product, combines a search engine, document storage, and graph databases in one convenient and easy-to-use platform. The database can be easily scaled and is suited to both big data and real-time applications. The company claims several notable enterprise users, including Cisco, Juniper Networks, Infosys, and Barclays.
One limitation that ArandoDB faces, however, is the increasing number of NoSQL vendors who provide a similar service to its products such as Elasticsearch, Apache Cassandra and MongoDB. In order to beat this competition ArangoDB has focused on graph databases as its niche and regularly updates its products with new features that are reactive to industry developments. It plans to focus on entering new markets in the coming years.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2021
$27.8m
SERIES B
Mar 2019
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $47.4m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Remote possible and flexible work hours
- Travel and expense coverage for company-related trips & events
- Paid time off for vacation and sick leave
- 401(k) company-matched retirement plan
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Shekhar Iyer
(CEO)Previously, the President of Streamsets, CRO of Couchbase, and Global Vice President of Big Data and Analytics at SAP.
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