Staff Software Engineer – Network Automation

20 hours ago

Berlin, GermanyStaff+

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for network automation and infrastructure control platforms.
Design and build APIs, services, controllers, and reconciliation workflows for production infrastructure.
Build Kubernetes-based control loops and custom resources that converge infrastructure toward declared intent.
Own operational Kubernetes concerns including CRD rollout, RBAC, admission, controller health, Helm packaging, deployment drift, and incident diagnosis.
Design distributed workflows resilient to eventual consistency, at-least-once delivery, concurrent writes, and partial failure.
Develop multi-tenant infrastructure platforms with tenant isolation, authorization, policy enforcement, and safe automation boundaries.
Establish testing, observability, CI, deployment, change-safety, and recovery practices for live infrastructure automation.
Lead migrations and modernization of legacy automation, services, and data models.
Drive technical alignment across software engineering, networking, operations, and architecture teams.
Mentor engineers, lead technical and design reviews, and improve engineering standards.

Deep expertise in a backend language such as Python, Go, Rust, or Java, including asynchronous concurrency, static typing, data modelling and validation, API development, packaging, and tooling.
Strong experience building Kubernetes controllers or operators with custom resources and reconciliation/control-loop patterns.
Strong experience building event-driven distributed systems using eventual consistency, at-least-once delivery, idempotency, optimistic concurrency, and partial-failure handling.
Experience designing self-service, multi-tenant platforms with tenant isolation, policy, and access control.
Strong API and schema design skills, including versioning and schema evolution.
Demonstrated technical leadership across team boundaries, including architectural design, stakeholder alignment, and mentoring.
Track record of taking ambiguous, technically complex problems from architecture through reliable production systems managing large-scale infrastructure.
Networking fundamentals such as BGP, IP fabrics, VXLAN/EVPN, or L3VPN are a plus.
Working knowledge of Go, infrastructure automation testing and observability, or graph databases and infrastructure source-of-truth systems is a plus.