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Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, Federal

In one line: Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, Federal is a remote role in the United States at a cloud software company serving regulated markets.

USD 149,800 to 262,200 per year
Remote (US)
A cloud software company serving regulated markets
Posted 27 Sep 2026

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About the role

A hands-on staff engineering role in a data platform organisation, building and running cloud-native services. The work supports US regulated markets and requires federal screening.

At a glance

PayUSD 149,800 to 262,200 per year
Remote scopeRemote, United States
Posted27 Sep 2026
Last checked19 Oct 2026

What you will do

Design, build and operate components and services in the cloud-native platform, taking features from design to production
Work with senior, staff and principal engineers to align work with platform architecture and standards
Improve reliability, scalability and operability by writing tests and instrumentation, refining runbooks and taking part in on-call

What they look for

Eight or more years of software development with a bachelor's degree, or fewer years with a master's degree or PhD, or equivalent experience
At least five years of hands-on work building, deploying and operating workloads on Kubernetes
Experience with a major hyperscaler such as AWS, Azure or GCP, including compute, networking and IAM primitives
Knowledge of containers, CI/CD and GitOps delivery, and infrastructure as code
Strong programming in Go or another systems language, with willingness to work mainly in Go

Nice to have

Familiarity with container networking (CNI) or service mesh
Experience with workload identity, mTLS or secrets management
Experience with observability through metrics, tracing and dashboards

Questions about this job

Is this a remote job, and where can I work from?

Yes, it is listed as remote, aimed at candidates in the United States.

What does this job pay?

The posting states USD 149,800 to 262,200 per year.

What experience is needed?

The posting asks for: eight or more years of software development with a bachelor's degree, or fewer years with a master's degree or PhD, or equivalent experience; at least five years of hands-on work building, deploying and operating workloads on Kubernetes; experience with a major hyperscaler such as AWS, Azure or GCP, including compute, networking and IAM primitives.

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