Principal Cloud Engineer, Nextdoor

• 8+ years of experience in a Systems Infrastructure role
• Experience with scaling cloud-based infrastructure
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes (K8S)
• Belief in infrastructure as code and enjoys working in a GitOps environment
• Thorough understanding of Linux and networking protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, eBPF)
• Strong debugging and performance tuning skills using software like gdb, perf, strace, ltrace, tcpdump, Wireshark, etc
• Experience with performance, automation, monitoring, and capacity planning

Desirable

• Building elastic and scalable container fleets with proven and measurable scaling response times, massive horizontal scaling capacity, and automatic failure remediation
• Automated controls around cloud configuration, compliance management, and identity and access management (IAM) security systems
• Providing self-service infrastructure-as-code systems to developers that automate the full lifecycle of managing, deploying and operating cloud services including blob/block storage, relational databases, key-value databases, caches and document search services
• Developing tooling for horizontally and vertically autoscaling our compute workloads
• Tuning Linux kernels for high throughput containerized environments running tens of thousands of containers. Providing upstream open source patches to well known community projects like AWS Bottlerocket, the Istio Service Mesh, Keiko IAM Manager, Kyverno, Strimzi.io’s Kafka Operator and more