Senior Software Engineer (DevOps/SRE)

Join project44, a leading global logistics network, as a Senior Software Engineer (DevOps/SRE). In this high-impact role, you will design, build, and operate the foundational systems that power our platform. You will work in a fast-paced Agile environment and have ownership over core infrastructure, Kubernetes platform, Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code, Kafka and Strimzi streaming infrastructure, cost optimization initiatives, observability and reliability practices, and more.

About 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 platform-minded builder who thinks about the engineers and systems they enable, not just the infrastructure they manage

Responsibilities

• You will also mentor and support other engineers and contribute to technical design discussions and architecture reviews.
• Design, build, and operate core infrastructure across GCP and AWS, leveraging managed services for scalability and reliability.
• Own and evolve the Kubernetes (GKE) platform, ensuring developer teams can ship safely and quickly.
• Lead and execute cost optimization initiatives, rightsizing compute, improving resource utilization, and reducing waste.
• A strong analytical approach to problem-solving, with comfort navigating ambiguity and making tradeoffs explicit—especially across reliability, velocity, and cost
• Cloud observability tooling and practices—building meaningful dashboards, alerts, SLI/SLO frameworks, and runbooks regardless of the tool stack
• Cloud cost management: identifying and executing on optimization opportunities, building spend visibility, and influencing engineering behavior around resource efficiency
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) across core services: GKE, GCS, Cloud NAT, VPC networking, IAM, Artifact Registry, and related managed services

Requirements

• A sense of ownership, curiosity, and resilience—comfortable voicing ideas, incorporating feedback, and iterating toward better solutions
• 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
• Cloud networking fundamentals: VPCs, subnetting, private connectivity, DNS, load balancing, and security group/firewall design
• 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
• Experience with AWS services alongside a primary GCP environment
• Scripting or automation in Python, Go, Bash, or similar for operational tooling
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems and GitOps patterns (ArgoCD, Flux, or similar)
• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) or advanced Kubernetes networking (Cilium, Calico)
• Experience building or operating developer platform capabilities (internal developer platforms, golden paths, self-service provisioning)
• Using AI-assisted development tools for infrastructure automation, runbook generation, or operational tooling (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot, or similar)

Pay

USD 130,000 - 190,000