We are looking for an Infrastructure Developer to design and build a custom control plane for managing Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization infrastructure at scale. This role sits at the intersection of systems programming, virtualization internals, and cloud-native orchestration you will build the software that provisions, schedules, and manages the lifecycle of Hyper-V virtual machines through a Kubernetes-style control plane, backed by a relational database for state and configuration management.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys building infrastructure software from the ground up, not just consuming existing platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop a custom control plane for orchestrating Microsoft Hyper-V hosts and virtual machines, following Kubernetes-style declarative, reconciliation-loop architecture patterns
• Build core control plane components in Go, including API servers, controllers/operators, schedulers, and reconciliation loops
• Design and maintain the relational database schema used for cluster state, VM inventory, host topology, and configuration data
• Implement custom Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and controllers where Kubernetes itself is used as (or alongside) the orchestration layer
• Build robust, idempotent reconciliation logic that keeps actual infrastructure state in sync with desired state
• Develop APIs (REST/gRPC) for internal and external consumers to interact with the control plane
• Implement observability (metrics, logging, tracing) for control plane health, VM scheduling decisions, and host resource utilization
• Design for high availability, failure recovery, and safe concurrent operations across a fleet of Hyper-V hosts
• Write unit, integration, and end-to-end tests for control plane components; participate in code reviews
• Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, and SRE teams to define scheduling policies, resource quotas, and placement constraints
• Document architecture decisions, APIs, and operational runbooks for the platform

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 4+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on infrastructure or platform software (not just application development)
• Strong proficiency in Go (Golang), including concurrency patterns (goroutines, channels), interfaces, and building production-grade services
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes internals or ecosystem writing controllers/operators, working with the client-go library, CRDs, and the controller-runtime/reconciliation pattern
• Strong experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL) schema design, transactions, migrations, and writing performant queries from Go
• Experience designing and building distributed systems: state reconciliation, eventual consistency, leader election, and failure handling
• Experience building and consuming REST or gRPC APIs
• Working knowledge of Git-based development workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing practices
• Strong debugging and systems-level troubleshooting skills across compute, storage, and networking layers

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience building or contributing to a Kubernetes-style control plane, cloud provider infrastructure, or a hypervisor management platform (e.g., contributions to Kubernetes, KubeVirt, OpenStack, or similar)
• Experience with KubeVirt or other VM-on-Kubernetes projects
• Knowledge of software-defined networking (SDN) concepts as applied to Hyper-V virtual switches
• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell DSC)
• Experience operating in regulated or enterprise datacenter environments with strict change-management processes
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure or Kubernetes ecosystem projects
• Understanding of Microsoft Hyper-V architecture (VHDs/VHDX, virtual switches, checkpoints, live migration, Hyper-V Manager/WMI, or Hyper-V's underlying Host Compute Service)

Key Skills Summary