Platform Engineer, Giant Swarm
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Kubernetes management software
Open for applications
Kubernetes management software
21-100 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To give everyone the power and freedom to build modern software that runs their world.
Role
Who you are
- You have experience with Go and at least one other programming language, and a strong software engineering background
- You have worked extensively and gained operational experience with Kubernetes and at least one of the cloud platforms AWS and Azure
- You are an experienced Linux user
- You are used to deploying to production multiple times a day, and love to automate all the things
- We – and our customers – are currently distributed (mostly) around Europe. Your main time zone should be UTC +/- 2
- We are very active in the Cloud Native / Kubernetes space. If you are as well – or just love giving talks – that will be a perfect addition
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Platform Engineer (m/f/d). You will be a key member of a tight-knit group of talented Engineers who are responsible for building the Giant Swarm Developer Platform
- The specific team is using cutting-edge technologies including Kubernetes operators and Cluster API to realize the platform’s cluster management and scaling capabilities on AWS and Azure
- The team is responsible for cluster management on AWS and Azure, using Cluster API and our own open source operators to build certain features. We develop and maintain features for those operators, including feature work on the upstream projects. We also develop solutions for long-term projects and goals of customers (for example: cost-effective cluster scaling with Karpenter)
- To keep up our high code quality, you ensure writing unit tests and end-to-end tests along with feature code
- You help create and test releases for each cloud platform. Releases bundle upgrades of Kubernetes and other software, and ensure a smooth rollout of major platform feature additions or changes to customers
- You take part in our on-call rotation for alerts and customer incidents. We keep our shifts quiet by fixing repeating problems long-term or communicating with customers to address specific issues such as misconfigurations
- You help with customer support requests and incidents, for instance by finding and solving problems on production clusters
- Onboarding of new customers, for example by preparing infrastructure like management clusters
- You work independently on assigned tasks, asking questions and communicating actively with team members and other teams in case of questions and decision points
Our take
The advent of cloud computing while making computational power and applications accessible to enterprises of all sizes, has also ushered in a new problem for enterprises - laboring over software infrastructure.
Giant Swarm fixes that problem by delivering software infrastructure management as a service. Crucial to its approach, however, is that it's not tied to a single software trend. Instead, it emphasizes managing microservices with an uncanny ability to evolve with an ever-changing market.
That means that Giant Swarm will continue to invest in its impressive engineering and product teams, refining its product continuously to best serve the DevOps teams of its customers.
Impressively, the company has been bootstrapped yet profitable to date. However, this lack of access to additional capital could become troublesome as they look to compete in a more and more densely crowded market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2015
$1.3m
SEED
Jul 2014
$1.1m
SEED
Total funding: $2.4m
Company benefits
- 100% Remote
- Unlimited vacation
- Personal development budget
- Hardware and Book Budget
- Twice yearly onsites
- Paid travel to relevant conferences
- Flexible hours
- Child benefits
- Share options
- Money for home office supplies and setup
- Transparent salaries
Company values
- People First
- Self-organization
- Culture of failure
- Transparency
Company HQ
Media-Park, Köln, NRW
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Leadership
Henning Lange
(CEO/Founder)Founded a realtime trading platform for Data Driven advertising, Adcloud, which was sold to DHL. Also founded another two successful companies in the advertising and lead generation space.
Oliver Thylmann
(Account Engineer/Founder)Previously founded AdTech company, AdCloud where they were CTO. Now also works a crypto investor and podcaster with Die Crypto Nerd Show.
Timo Derstappen
(CTO/Founder)Timo Derstappen is an also be found in Team Horizon, where he helps to drive the mission to enrich our product by providing synergies to growth, customers, and product.
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