Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform (Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, Federal)

About the role

A hands-on technical lead role owning shared multi-tenant data platform services on Kubernetes, from design through production operation, for a large global fleet.

What you will do

• Turn ambiguous goals into clear executable designs with explicit targets for availability, durability and cost.
• Define high availability, failover, disaster recovery and multi-region architecture plus Kubernetes-native automation for provisioning, scal
• Align work with principal engineers on platform architecture and set consumption contracts, tenancy models and SLOs with product teams.
• Spend significant time coding and reviewing core systems, and mentor mid-level and junior engineers.

What they look for

• Experience integrating AI into engineering and platform work, such as AI tooling, automated operations or agentic systems.
• Twelve or more years of software development with a bachelor's degree, or eight with a master's, or five with a PhD, or equivalent experienc
• Eight or more years building production software and operating distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience running stateful workloads on Kubernetes at scale.
• A track record of technical leadership on major platform initiatives.