Senior Software Engineer, project44

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain infrastructure decisions through design docs, postmortems, and cross-functional discussions, and collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical partners
• A strong analytical approach to problem-solving, with comfort navigating ambiguity and making tradeoffs explicit—especially across reliability, velocity, and cost
• A sense of ownership, curiosity, and resilience—comfortable voicing ideas, incorporating feedback, and iterating toward better solutions
• A platform-minded builder who thinks about the engineers and systems they enable, not just the infrastructure they manage
• 5+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, DevOps, or a closely related role
• Kubernetes administration and operations at scale (GKE strongly preferred), including cluster networking, autoscaling, workload isolation, and upgrade management
• Kafka operations and architecture, including topic design, consumer group management, broker configuration, and integration with streaming workloads (Strimzi experience a plus)
• Infrastructure-as-code using Terraform—module design, state management, CI-driven plan/apply workflows, and drift detection
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) across core services: GKE, GCS, Cloud NAT, VPC networking, IAM, Artifact Registry, and related managed services
• Cloud observability tooling and practices—building meaningful dashboards, alerts, SLI/SLO frameworks, and runbooks regardless of the tool stack
• Cloud networking fundamentals: VPCs, subnetting, private connectivity, DNS, load balancing, and security group/firewall design
• Cloud cost management: identifying and executing on optimization opportunities, building spend visibility, and influencing engineering behavior around resource efficiency

Desirable

• Project44 is looking for a Senior DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineer to join our Foundations Engineering team
• You will work in a fast-paced Agile environment designing, building, and operating the foundational systems that power project44's global logistics network—ensuring our platform is reliable, observable, cost-efficient, and built to scale
• This is a high-ownership, high-impact role at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and developer enablement
• Design, build, and operate core infrastructure across our primary GCP environment and secondary AWS footprint, leveraging managed services to deliver scalable, reliable, and cost-effective solutions
• Own and evolve our Kubernetes (GKE) platform—cluster lifecycle management, node pool strategy, networking, RBAC, and workload reliability—ensuring developer teams can ship safely and quickly
• Build and maintain Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code across cloud environments, enforcing standards for modularity, state management, and repeatable, auditable provisioning
• Manage and improve our Kafka and Strimzi streaming infrastructure, supporting high-throughput event pipelines that are foundational to project44's real-time data capabilities
• Lead and execute cost optimization initiatives—rightsizing compute, improving resource utilization, reducing waste, and creating visibility and accountability for cloud spend across engineering teams
• Champion observability and reliability practices — SLOs/SLIs, incident response, on-call processes, and postmortems — to reduce MTTR and prevent recurrence
• Partner with application engineering teams to define and implement platform standards for deployment, scaling, service mesh, secrets management, and infrastructure security
• Participate in a team on-call rotation, debugging and resolving infrastructure and platform incidents with urgency and rigor
• Contribute to technical design discussions, architecture reviews, and documentation—helping set a high bar for quality, reliability, and operational excellence across the engineering organization
• Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance
• Evaluate and introduce new tools, platforms, and automation to continuously modernize the infrastructure stack
• Drive cost-optimization initiatives across cloud spend without compromising reliability or performance