Staff / Principal Software Engineer – Cloud Platform & SaaS
SingleStore15 days ago
Base Salary
$140k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, implement, and scale multi-tenant Kubernetes operators, custom controllers, and orchestration workflows managing thousands of customer database clusters.
- Develop performant and fault-tolerant Go and Python backend services and control planes.
- Own cross-cloud networking topology, routing, private connectivity, DNS, ingress/egress controls, and service mesh performance across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Build scalable compute, vector indexing, caching, and ingestion infrastructure supporting real-time AI, GenAI, and vector workloads.
- Dedicate approximately 10–20% of time to Tier-3 production escalations involving infrastructure failures, performance bottlenecks, and kernel or networking anomalies.
- Design infrastructure with automated controls supporting SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS compliance environments.
- Author RFCs and architectural design records, mentor senior engineers, lead cross-functional reviews, and align roadmap priorities with Product and SRE teams.
Requirements
- 8–12+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, deploying, and operating distributed enterprise SaaS platforms at scale.
- Hands-on mastery of Kubernetes internals, CRDs, custom controller development using client-go or controller-runtime, scheduling, and container networking and runtime internals.
- Expert proficiency in Go and Python, including concurrent programming, low-latency I/O, and distributed state management.
- Deep operational knowledge of cloud networking constructs including Transit Gateways, DirectConnect or ExpressRoute, Private Service Connect, CIDR subnetting, mTLS, and load balancing.
- Practical familiarity with compute, caching, and storage requirements for real-time AI/ML pipelines, RAG, and vector embeddings.
- Ability to debug complex nondeterministic production issues involving network layers, memory allocation, and distributed consensus.
- Strong written and oral communication skills, cross-team alignment experience, and experience influencing executive-level technical strategy.
- Preferred: experience with managed DBaaS or data-intensive streaming infrastructure, CNCF or cloud-native open-source contributions, and Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane.
Benefits
- The posted base salary range is $140,000–$215,000 USD per year for roles based in Boston, Chicago, New York, Austin, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle, Washington, or Dallas; additional rewards may include merit increases and annual bonuses.
Tech Stack
About SingleStore
SingleStore builds SingleStoreDB, a distributed SQL database that supports real-time transactions and analytics on the same engine for data-intensive applications. It sells enterprise licenses and a managed cloud service to developers and companies needing low-latency analytics on operational data. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held and has a majority investment from Vector Capital.