Infrastructure Engineer (Kubernetes / Node.js)

• Participate in product planning (From discovery all the way to deployment); We want your input at all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle!
• Collaborate! Our teams work together to develop robust new features, API's, continuously improve our industry-leading products and find and fix any bugs at Deel Speed.
• Ensure our customers receive a white-glove experience with our products!, * Design, build, and maintain the control plane that powers hundreds of dynamic developer sandboxes
• Develop backend tooling and services that automate sandbox creation, orchestration, and lifecycle management
• Productize and provide infra as a platform including DBs, caches, object storage and queueing systems
• Scale & tune the cluster to provide capacity for volatile workloads. You'll become hands on with Karpenter/VPA/KEDA policies, right-sizing, pod density, bin-packing, and scheduling strategies for diverse, bursty workloads
• Constantly track and optimize costs to be efficient. At our k8s scale all tiny decisions matter, from compute to storage and data transfer
• Own the networking setup to mimic what we have in Production but pair it with greater DevEx at scale of hundreds of sandboxes - traffic routing and interception, ingress tuning, serving assets
• Implement and evolve observability within sandboxes
• Partner with Sandboxes SRE team to ensure uptime and reliability of hundreds of sandboxes daily
• Work with Deel engineering to improve their DevEx and productize day to day needs into self-service platform

Do you have experience in System design?, * 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Infrastructure or Platform Engineering

• Strong BE engineering skills: API design, Postgres, Kafka/Nats
• Node.js/Go/Python background
• Experience with AWS/GCP/Azure
• Advanced experience with Kubernetes, including creating tools, controllers, or operators that extend its capabilities
• Experience with all the standard Kubernetes tools:

• networking (ingress controllers, CoreDNS, external-dns, AWS LBC, oauth2-proxy)
• secret management (Vault, External Secrets)
• cluster autoscaling and resource tuning (Karpenter, VPA, goldilocks, KEDA)
• storage provisioning

• Experience with Helm charts and GitOps
• Experience working with and maintaining large k8s clusters: 1000 nodes, 30k+ pods
• Excellent system design and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities across multiple teams
• Hands-on mindset, comfortable working in complex and evolving environments, * Have built internal developer platforms (in-house or with tools like Okteto, Gitpod, Crafting) or Kubernetes operators
• Have production experience with Postgres Operators, e.g. CloudNativePG or Zalando
• Have multi-region and multi-cloud experience

Our workforce deserves fair and competitive pay that meets them where they are. With scalable benefits, rewards, and perks, our total rewards programs reflect our commitment to inclusivity and access for all.

Some things you'll enjoy

• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
• The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access

Helping people overcome communication barriers is the heart of what we do. Founded in Germany in 2017 by a team of engineers and researchers, DeepL has developed the world’s most accurate AI translation technology—enabling real-time, human-sounding translation.

Accessible via a web translator, browser extensions, desktop and mobile apps, and an API, DeepL supports a best-in-class translation experience in 34 languages and counting. Our 550-person team operates across four European hubs in Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, and Poland.