Platform Engineer (Kubernetes operators development)

At q-tech, we are collaborating with an innovative start-up in the vector database space, helping them expand their engineering team as they scale their SaaS and Hybrid Cloud offerings.

As a Platform Engineer, you'll design and optimize cloud-native infrastructure to ensure high performance and scalability. This role is about building tools and automation that empower developers-not just maintaining systems.

You'll write production-grade Go code, manage Kubernetes at scale and design internal tooling and systems that enable developer autonomy and operational excellence. What you'll do:

• Design, implement, and operate our cloud-native platform architecture
• Build and maintain Kubernetes clusters and develop custom Kubernetes operators
• Write production-grade Go code for platform services and automation tooling
• Optimize cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure) for performance, cost, and reliability
• Improve observability across the platform through monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Automate workflows and integrations across systems and tools
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, and data teams to understand and support their infrastructure needs
• Contribute to incident response, root cause analysis, and system hardening
• Continuously improve performance, developer experience, and reliability at scale

• 5-7+ years of experience in platform engineering or SRE roles
• Strong proficiency in Go and Python, or deep expertise in one and willingness to work with both
• Solid grasp of distributed systems and microservices architecture
• Hands-on experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and automation best practices
• Comfort participating in on-call rotationsb> and managing production incidents
• A proactive, ownership-driven mindset and strong communication skills