Backend Engineer- INTL- LATAM

Insight Global is seeking a for a Backend Engineer with Kubernetes infrastructure knowledge to own the design, automation, and reliability of stateful workloads running on Azure AKS. This role focuses on building highly available, self-healing systems for databases and storage-backed services, eliminating manual intervention and “snowflake” configurations while meeting 99.99% uptime targets.

What You’ll Do

-Own the full lifecycle of Kubernetes StatefulSets, including provisioning, scaling, upgrades, and graceful failover

-Design and implement high-availability architectures using pod anti-affinity, topology spread constraints, and zonal resilience

-Optimize and tune Azure persistent storage (Premium/Ultra Disks, Azure NetApp Files) via CSI drivers

-Build and automate disaster recovery workflows, including snapshot, restore, and rapid state reconciliation

-Provision and manage stateful infrastructure using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code best practices

-Create observability and alerting for PV utilization, disk pressure, replication lag, and storage health

-Ensure cluster upgrades and node rotations happen with zero manual data migration

7+ Years of experience as a software engineer

-2 years of experience hands-on with Kubernetes StatefulSets, PVCs, and CSI

-Strong experience operating stateful services in production (e.g., Postgres, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch)

-Cloud knowledge- Azure preferred

-Experience automating infrastructure using Terraform

-Strong scripting or development skills in Go, Python, or Bash -Experience building GitOps workflows for complex, ordered deployments

-Background in custom controllers, operators, or lifecycle hooks (PreStop/PostStart)

-Experience with disaster recovery testing, RTO/RPO optimization, and snapshot automation

-Strong observability mindset (dashboards, alerts, SLOs for stateful systems)

-Prior ownership of large-scale distributed systems on Kubernetes