Senior Software Engineer
InterSystems2 months ago
Dublin, IrelandSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain Kubernetes Operators, controllers, CRDs, APIs, and automation in Go.
- Automate platform provisioning, upgrades, scaling, recovery, configuration, and other lifecycle workflows.
- Build reliable, observable, secure, and resilient controllers that handle retries, drift, failures, and changing cluster state.
- Develop automated test coverage and contribute to GitOps, Helm, and infrastructure automation.
- Integrate platform software across public-cloud, private-cloud, and on-premises Kubernetes environments.
- Apply Kubernetes security practices including RBAC, secrets management, admission controls, and workload isolation.
- Improve platform reliability through observability, troubleshooting, post-incident improvements, and operational automation.
- Mentor engineers and help establish engineering standards and best practices.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software, platform, cloud, DevOps, infrastructure automation, or SRE engineering.
- Strong production development experience with Go.
- Hands-on experience building Kubernetes Operators, controllers, CRDs, admission webhooks, or similar Kubernetes-native software.
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes APIs, reconciliation patterns, RBAC, finalizers, status conditions, and object lifecycle.
- Experience supporting production Kubernetes environments and distributed systems.
- Strong knowledge of automated testing, CI/CD, GitOps, Helm, Linux, containers, networking, storage, and Kubernetes troubleshooting.
- Experience applying Kubernetes security practices.
- Strong communication skills and experience mentoring or influencing other engineers.
- Experience with Kubebuilder, Operator SDK, controller-runtime, Terraform, Argo CD, Flux, EKS, AKS, GKE, Prometheus, Grafana, Istio, Linkerd, or Cilium is beneficial.
- Experience in regulated or mission-critical environments and relevant Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud DevOps, or Linux certifications are beneficial.
About InterSystems
InterSystems builds data platforms and healthcare software for enterprises and public-sector providers, including the InterSystems IRIS database, HealthShare interoperability suite, and TrakCare electronic health record. It sells licenses, cloud services, and support to customers in healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and supply chain. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Boston, the privately held company serves organizations in 80+ countries.