Platform Engineer, Giant Swarm
Security
Kubernetes management software
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Kubernetes management software
1-20 employees
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1-20 employees
Company mission
To give everyone the power and freedom to build modern software that runs their world.
Role
Who you are
- You have expert experience with Go, Helm, and a strong architectural background
- You have worked extensively with Kubernetes
- You are an experienced Linux user
- You are comfortable using AI tooling as part of the development process
- You deploy to production multiple times a day, and love to automate all the things
- You are comfortable building and working with distributed systems - you prefer to build your applications as multiple services instead of a single monolith
- You are able to comfortably align parts of your workday with Europe (UTC +/- 2 hours) and the United States (PST). We offer flexible working hours, but have team members and customers across time zones, and you will need to be able to regularly communicate with them
- Bonus points if you have meaningful experience with Kubernetes security tooling, have ever maintained an open-source security project, are/were an incident responder, or have worked in a “blue team” role
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Platform Engineer (m/f/d) specializing in Security to join our product development team, and play an integral role in crafting our managed Kubernetes platform offering
- You will help design and build security features, tooling, and processes for a mature, battle-tested Kubernetes and AI infrastructure platform
- Our platform includes an entirely open-source security solution in our suite of managed services, and a successful candidate will join us in building Kubernetes and AI security tooling and continuously improving our security posture
- We work directly with the platform engineering teams of our customers to manage and secure their workloads
- In this role, you would join our security team and work on integrating open-source security tools into our managed security service, hardening our Kubernetes clusters, and enabling customers and other teams to be secure by default
- Giant Swarm is a fast-growing open-source infrastructure management platform used by modern enterprises
- Our vision is to empower developers around the world to ship great products
- You will be responsible for architecting and building distributed systems, as part of our managed Kubernetes offering
- You will build Kubernetes Operators, MCP servers, and orchestration tools for popular applications
- You will use, support, and become a key expert in a variety of technologies from across the open-source community, including Falco, Trivy, Kubescape, Kyverno, SPIFFE/SPIRE, Prometheus, and Flatcar Linux
- This is not a support role, but you will regularly interact with customers to investigate issues, learn about their use cases, and provide expert guidance for the things you build
- You will take part in an on-call rotation, as part of our ‘you build it, you run it’ philosophy. This includes improving operations, such as adding metrics, or building dashboards
- You will have the opportunity to participate in company “blue team” activities, like compliance, vulnerability management, and security incident response, if you desire
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 - labouring 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 emphasises 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.
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 HQ
Media-Park, Köln, Germany
Leadership
Henning Lange
(Co-Founder & CEO)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
(Co-Founder & Head of Relationships)Previously founded AdTech company, AdCloud where they were CTO. Now also works a crypto investor and podcaster with Die Crypto Nerd Show.
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