Backend Senior Software Engineer (Control Plane & Orchestration)
SimSpace Corporation3 months ago
Remote, Costa RicaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and build the control plane API for range orchestration, scenario management, service creation, persona registration, topology updates, and state queries.
- Own the event-driven orchestration layer coordinating multi-step operations across network, services, identity, and storage subsystems.
- Build and maintain persistent storage primitives across file, object, and container storage.
- Own Kubernetes operators or controllers, lifecycle management, upgrade and rollout strategies, and integrations with new ranges.
- Define the platform state model, authority boundaries, recovery behavior, and convergence after disruptions.
- Collaborate on in-range proxy agent architecture, deployment, connectivity management, and control-plane handoffs.
- Partner with SRE on runbooks, incident response procedures, and production observability.
- Contribute to configuration management, secrets handling, and control-plane security.
Requirements
- Strong bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish across written, virtual, and in-person interactions.
- Experience building event-driven or message-driven systems and evaluating coordination tradeoffs.
- Strong Kubernetes expertise, including writing operators or controllers, managing custom resources, and reasoning about multi-tenant workload isolation.
- Experience designing and operating file, object, block, or container storage systems and selecting appropriate abstractions.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and GitOps-based deployment workflows.
- Experience with air-gapped or on-premises Kubernetes deployments is preferred.
- Strong API design instincts and experience building reliable platform APIs.
- Solid distributed-systems fundamentals, including consistency, failure modes, and convergence.
- Operational rigor, including instrumentation, runbooks, and proactive failure-mode analysis.
Benefits
- Private medical, dental, vision, and life benefits.
- Company-paid counseling, coaching, and family resources through Spring Health.
- Paid parental leave.
- Equity stock options at hire and annual performance-based grants.
- LinkedIn Learning membership.
- Monthly reimbursements for teammate social connections.
Tech Stack
About SimSpace Corporation
SimSpace builds cyber ranges and a live-fire simulation platform used by governments, militaries, and large enterprises to train cyber teams, validate defenses, and test AI agents. The company sells software and expert services for training, threat emulation, and technology evaluation in replicas of production environments. Founded in 2015 by veterans of U.S. Cyber Command and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, SimSpace is privately held and headquartered in Orlando, Florida.