Who We’re Looking For
8+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Infrastructure or Platform Engineering
Strong backend engineering skills: API design, Postgres, Kafka/Nats
Node.js/Go/Python background
Experience with AWS/GCP/Azure
Advanced experience with Kubernetes, including creating tools, controllers, or operators that extend its capabilities
Experience with all the standard Kubernetes tools:
Networking (ingress controllers, CoreDNS, external-dns, AWS LB, oauth2-proxy)
Secret management (Vault, External Secrets)
Cluster autoscaling and resource tuning (Karpenter, VPA, goldilocks, KEDA)
Storage provisioning
Experience with Helm charts and GitOps
Experience working with and maintaining large k8s clusters: 1000 nodes, 30k+ pods
Excellent system design and problem‑solving skills
Strong communication and collaboration abilities across multiple teams
Hands‑on mindset, comfortable working in complex and evolving environments
What You’ll Do
Design, build, and maintain the control plane that powers hundreds of dynamic developer sandboxes
Develop backend tooling and services that automate sandbox creation, orchestration, and lifecycle management
Productize and provide infrastructure as a platform including DBs, caches, object storage and queueing systems
Scale & tune the cluster to provide capacity for volatile workloads. You’ll become hands on with Karpenter/VPA/KEDA policies, right‑sizing, pod density, bin‑packing, and scheduling strategies for diverse, bursty workloads
Constantly track and optimize costs to be efficient. At our k8s scale all tiny decisions matter, from compute to storage and data transfer
Own the networking setup to mimic what we have in production but pair it with greater DevEx at scale of hundreds of sandboxes – traffic routing and interception, ingress tuning, serving assets
Implement and evolve observability within sandboxes
Partner with Sandboxes SRE team to ensure uptime and reliability of hundreds of sandboxes daily
Work with Deel engineering to improve their DevEx and productize day‑to‑day needs into self‑service platform
Extra Brownie Points If You…
Have built internal developer platforms (in‑house or with tools like Okteto, Gitpod, Crafting) or Kubernetes operators
Have production experience with Postgres Operators, e.g. CloudNativePG or Zalando
Have multi‑region and multi‑cloud experience
Total Rewards
Our workforce deserves fair and competitive pay that meets them where they are. With scalable benefits, rewards, and perks, our total rewards programs reflect our commitment to inclusivity and access for all.
Some things you’ll enjoy
Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access
At Deel, we’re an equal‑opportunity employer that values diversity and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of race, religion, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy or maternity or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Deel will provide accommodations on request throughout the recruitment, selection and assessment process for applicants with disabilities. If you require accommodations, please inform our Talent Acquisition Team via this link and a team member will be in touch to ensure your equal participation. If you have difficulty accessing the form, please email at recruiting@deel.com.
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