16 hours ago
Remote, WorldwideStaff+
Responsibilities
- Architect and advance the control plane and design the context plane using service registries, schema registries, SLO enforcement, CLI tooling, operational signals, and automated feedback loops.
- Maintain multi-language Java and Python client libraries, workload specifications, Helm charts, and deployment pipelines as the organization’s standardized golden path.
- Define gRPC and Protocol Buffer inter-service contracts, gateway transcoding, versioning policies, and schema evolution rules.
- Operate Kubernetes infrastructure across OCI, Hetzner, Servers.com, and GCP with Terraform, HAProxy/Nginx ingresses, Confluent Kafka, Valkey, and database modernization initiatives.
- Lead architectural RFDs involving Temporal/DBOS workflows, gateway orchestration, multi-cluster routing, and automated failover.
- Establish SLOs, error budgets, health-aware traffic isolation, weighted canary deployments, and other reliability engineering practices.
- Participate in shared infrastructure on-call, lead incident post-mortems, and convert operational lessons into platform improvements.
- Mentor engineers, review distributed-systems proposals, and establish engineering practices across five neighboring squads.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building scalable distributed backend systems and a track record of authoring internal platforms or core libraries adopted by engineering teams.
- Expertise in Java, including reactive frameworks such as Vert.x or Netty, and strong proficiency in Python.
- Deep experience with gRPC and Protobuf, schema evolution, and backward compatibility in mission-critical environments.
- Hands-on production Kubernetes, Terraform, and Kafka experience at scale.
- Experience designing automated telemetry pipelines, materialized views, or feature stores that adapt system behavior using production data.
- Experience defining SLOs and SLIs, analyzing blast radius, and designing fault-tolerant systems around rigorous service contracts.
- Exceptional technical writing and the ability to drive technical alignment across multifunctional teams.
- Strong written and interpersonal communication skills for globally distributed, remote-first collaboration.
- Preferred experience with Temporal, DBOS, model serving, MLOps monitoring, drift detection, SPIRE, mTLS, Cilium, Istio, Envoy, developer tooling, web scraping, crawling, or open-source distributed-systems projects.
Benefits
- Remote-first work from anywhere with flexible working hours and high organizational trust.
- Conference attendance and opportunities to meet team members globally.
- Work with cutting-edge open-source technologies and tools.
- Join a self-motivated, progressive, multicultural team.
Tech Stack
AmbassadorApache HBaseApache KafkaCircleCIGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanagRPCHelmIstioJavaKubernetesMySQLPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonTerraform
About Zyte
Zyte builds SaaS and services for extracting structured data from public websites, including Zyte API for crawling/unblocking/extraction, Smart Proxy Manager, and fully managed data projects for enterprise teams. Its business model combines subscriptions with professional services. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Ballincollig, Cork, the privately held company is the original author and ongoing maintainer of the Scrapy web-scraping framework.