Staff Software Engineer Platform

About the role

Qdrant is an open‑source vector search engine powering next‑generation AI applications. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Platform team, you will work on the core cloud platform that enables all other engineering teams at Qdrant. You’ll design and evolve shared services, control‑plane components, and internal APIs that power our managed cloud offering and support enterprise‑grade deployments.

Key responsibilities

• Design and evolve core platform services and internal APIs consumed by multiple teams.
• Drive architectural initiatives such as gRPC migration, event‑driven/pub‑sub foundations, and platform refactors.
• Own and improve control‑plane and cluster‑API components.
• Build platform abstractions that reduce operational and cognitive load for other teams.
• Write production‑grade Go code for platform services and internal tooling.
• Collaborate with Regions & Clusters, Resilience, and Features teams to enable delivery through platform primitives.
• Improve platform scalability, reliability, and developer experience through thoughtful design.
• Support production systems and incident response when needed, focusing on long‑term fixes.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer working on platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in Go and Python, or deep expertise in one with willingness to work regularly with both.
• Solid experience with Kubernetes and cloud‑native architectures.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and API design.
• Experience building and operating production systems used by other engineers or teams.
• Comfortable working cross‑team and driving technical alignment.
• Ownership mindset and clear communication skills.

Required skills

• Go
• Python
• Kubernetes
• gRPC
• Event‑driven architectures
• Control‑plane systems
• Kubernetes operators
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• OpenTelemetry

What we offer

• Remote‑first, international team working on cutting‑edge AI infrastructure.
• Competitive salary and flexible working hours.
• Async‑friendly culture with high ownership and real impact.
• Open‑source, engineering‑driven culture and choice of laptop equipment.
• For US‑based employees: 401k match, health, dental, vision insurance, and flexible PTO.