Staff Software Engineer II, Secure Compute

What you'll do

• Define and drive the technical direction for the Secure Compute platform architecture, runtime, and security.
• Design and implement platform APIs and Kubernetes controllers in Go to power workload lifecycle and autoscaling.
• Build and evolve secure multi-tenant compute substrates and isolation primitives for shared environments.
• Implement and harden workload isolation, network policies, identity, and secure execution environments.
• Lead technical design reviews and influence architecture across teams to ensure safe-by-default primitives.
• Own operational excellence for key services, including availability, reliability, SLOs, and incident management.
• Mentor engineers through design guidance, code reviews, and sharing best practices for platform development.
• Partner with product teams to deliver a roadmap that enables new customer-facing features.

What we're looking for

• Master's Degree (preferred).
• 10+ years of experience delivering scalable backend or infrastructure software in production.
• Proven track record of leading the delivery of large-scale, highly available, low-latency distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, including controller development, operator patterns, and multi-region or multi-cluster architectures.
• Strong proficiency in Go with experience building production-grade services and control planes.
• Experience with multi-tenant platform architectures and security/isolation patterns like namespaces, network policies, and secrets management.
• Hands-on experience with secure container runtimes, low-level Linux internals, and public cloud environments (AWS, GCP, and Azure).
• Demonstrated technical leadership and mentorship, including driving cross-team alignment on architecture and strategic direction.
• Strong collaboration skills and a demonstrated ability to work effectively with Product, SRE, Security, and Engineering teams (preferred).