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Senior Software Engineer, Cluster & Lifecycle

Build the Go operator that runs customers' production vector databases, from provisioning to disaster recovery

Within a regionAnywhere in EMEA, as long as you like

Open to engineers based anywhere in EMEA, with flexible hours and an async-friendly culture.

How long can you stay where you're going?
    Workspace budget
  • Flexible, async-friendly hours
  • Choose your own laptop
  • Open-source engineering culture

The role

At Qdrant you'll build the Kubernetes operator and control-plane services behind Qdrant Cloud, owning the full cluster lifecycle. The team's roadmap includes cross-region replication and disaster recovery.

What you'll do

  • 1Design and build Kubernetes operator and control-plane features in Go
  • 2Own cluster lifecycle: provisioning, scaling, upgrades, backups and restores
  • 3Design APIs that people and AI agents use to manage Qdrant Cloud
  • 4Close feature gaps between Hybrid Cloud and managed cloud, and extend Private Cloud
  • 5Join on-call for your services, including incident response and root cause analysis

What they're looking for

Must-haves

  • Strong Go proficiency
  • Experience building Kubernetes operators or controllers
  • Solid grasp of distributed systems: consistency, failure handling, replication
  • Hands-on with AWS, GCP or Azure
  • API design (gRPC or REST), CI/CD and automated testing

Nice to have

  • Running stateful workloads or databases on Kubernetes
  • Backup, replication or disaster recovery experience
  • Open-source contributions, especially in the Kubernetes ecosystem

The company

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Qdrant

Open-source vector search company, Series B

Qdrant makes an open-source vector search engine for AI applications, used by companies such as Canva, HubSpot and Bosch. It's remote-first and raised a $50M Series B.

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