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Senior Staff Engineer

Vailexa Technology LLCUnited States🇺🇸United StatesPosted Sep 26, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid Senior Staff Engineer role offers significant opportunities to drive technical strategy and cost efficiency for a leading cloud platform, perfect for experienced infrastructure leaders who thrive on complex challenges. You will have a direct impact on a distributed team and contribute to the multi-year evolution of a cutting-edge compute platform, making this an ideal position for those seeking impactful career growth. Apply to leverage your deep Kubernetes and public cloud expertise in a role that values technical leadership and strategic vision.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
United States
Posted
2 weeks ago
AWSEnvoyAzureCircleCICloudflareDatadogDigitalOceanGoogle CloudIstioKubernetes

Job Description

Role- Senior Staff Engineer
Location- Remote
Duration: 12+ Months
Targeting candidates with experience at cloud-native, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused companies such as Datadog, Cloudflare, CoreWeave, DigitalOcean, Cloudera, CircleCI, Elastic, Dynatrace, or similar organizations where Kubernetes is used at scale in production environments. No targeting candidates whose Kubernetes experience is limited to UI tools, basic cluster ops, or non-engineering functions.
A Typical Day:
  • Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
  • Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
  • Deliver enhancements that drive the cost efficiency of our cloud platform.
  • Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
  • Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
  • Contribute to the multi-year strategy to evolve client’s Cloud Platform
  • Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance the compute platform.
Your Expertise:
  • BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
  • 12+ years of relevant work experience in infrastructure
  • 4+ years of expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. EC2).
  • Experience setting technical direction, planning, and successfully executing on large projects spanning multiple teams
  • Kubernetes Experience is required.
  • Istio/Envoy Experience is preferred.

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