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Responsibilities
- Lead the migration to Kubernetes and operate reliable clusters, networking, access controls, and data services.
- Scale Kafka-to-Quickwit ingestion and search while improving throughput, indexing lag, API latency, and storage costs.
- Build repeatable on-prem installations and upgrades, including configuration, data migrations, and rollback.
- Establish alerts and reliability targets, lead incident response, and eliminate recurring failures.
- Automate provisioning with Terraform and Helm and improve CI/CD, capacity planning, backups, and recovery.
Requirements
- Experience building and operating production cloud infrastructure on AWS or Google Cloud using Terraform.
- Experience operating production Kubernetes clusters, including deployments, ingress, autoscaling, and upgrades.
- Strong Linux and networking fundamentals, including DNS, TLS, and load balancing.
- Experience with Go, Python, Rust, or another relevant programming language.
- Experience with CI/CD, observability, and operating data pipelines or distributed APIs in production.
- A track record of automating operational work and owning services through incidents and upgrades.
- Preferred experience deploying and supporting on-prem software across customer networks and infrastructure.
- Preferred experience with Quickwit or similar search systems, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Temporal, Helm, Bazel, self-hosted CI runners, or environments for AI coding agents.
Benefits
- 100% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for U.S.-based full-time employees.
- Partial coverage for dependents.
- Flexible PTO.
- Cash compensation and a stock options grant are offered, with offer positioning based on experience, qualifications, skills, business requirements, and geographic location.
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About Formal
Formal builds a data privilege access management platform that automates fine-grained access control and monitoring across the modern data stack for engineering-focused security teams. It sells its software as a cloud-based subscription. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and is backed by investors including Thrive Capital and Y Combinator.