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# Messaging Platform Engineer - Operations, Kubernetes & NATS

- **Company:** WirelessCar North America Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Enterprise Messaging Systems, Octopus Deploy, Open Source Technology, Prometheus, Grafana, Kubernetes Helm Charts, Kubernetes
- **Published:** August 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://career.wirelesscar.com/jobs/7606574-messaging-platform-engineer-operations-kubernetes-nats

## About the Role

This is a hands-on role for someone who has proven experience operating production systems and working with Kubernetes. You do not need to be a NATS expert on day one, but you should be excited to learn it deeply and apply your operational experience to an important platform capability., We're looking for an experienced engineer who can bring a strong level of expertise to the role, including:

 * Proven production operations experience: you have operated live systems and have practical experience with monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, incident response, and post-mortems
 * Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience: you can operate and troubleshoot workloads and deployments using tools such as kubectl, k9s, and Argo CD
 * A systems mindset: you can reason from evidence about failures, performance degradation, network problems, and message-processing bottlenecks
 * Clear communication: you explain technical issues clearly, share knowledge, and work constructively with people across different roles and levels of experience
 * A collaborative and pragmatic personality: you enjoy solving problems with others, making trade-offs, and taking ownership from investigation through production
 * The drive to learn NATS: you are interested in developing deep knowledge of clustering, JetStream, subject hierarchies, security models, and messaging patterns

Experience with NATS or another messaging system is valuable, but strong operations and Kubernetes experience is the foundation for this role. Experience with comparable orchestration, deployment, or observability tools is relevant, but you should be comfortable learning and working hands-on with Kubernetes.

It would be a plus if you have

 * Hands-on experience designing and operating messaging systems or other high-throughput distributed systems
 * Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
 * Experience with Helm charts and Kubernetes CRDs
 * Experience writing Go, or an interest in learning high-quality, idiomatic Go
 * Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD, Flux, or Kargo
 * Experience building or contributing to open source (we maintain NAuth, a Kubernetes Operator that enables GitOps of NATS AuthN/Z configuration)
 * An interest in or experience using AI agents for development, * No cover letter needed - just a few questions to help us better understand your experience, skills and motivation.
 * Please submit your application in English, our company language.
 * A valid work permit is required.

## Description

We are looking for an experienced platform, DevOps, or operations engineer to help build and run the messaging capabilities of Drive, WirelessCar's Internal Developer Platform., Drive is WirelessCar's platform for turning ideas into running customer solutions. It gives development teams a consistent way to build, deploy, and operate software, while reducing the operational effort needed to get from an idea to production., * Operate and scale NATS clusters: monitor, tune, troubleshoot, and improve production messaging infrastructure; take part in incident response and capacity planning

 * Improve observability and operational excellence: build dashboards, alerts, metrics, logs, and traces that make the platform understandable and help teams diagnose messaging issues
 * Improve reliability: identify failure modes, strengthen resilience, and continuously improve clustering topology and operational practices
 * Create actionable documentation: provide clear examples, runnable code, and troubleshooting guides that help developers use and operate messaging safely
 * Build developer tooling: create CLIs, APIs, or Kubernetes operators that let teams provision messaging resources through self-service tooling
 * Work across boundaries: collaborate with developers, platform engineers, and architects to turn operational findings into practical platform improvements


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