Software Engineer (SWE)
Skill Level 3 20 years with BSProfile: A senior engineer who can design, implement, and improve distributed application orchestration logic, mentor peers, and contribute to the architectural direction of the system.
Responsibilities:
- Design scalable workflows for deploying and managing Kubernetes-native applications
- Lead the development of reusable Helm charts, GitOps templates, and deployment strategies
- Build system-aware controllers or agents that automate app lifecycle tasks
- Contribute to platform-wide architecture decisions (e.g., deployment strategy, multi-cluster config, observability)
- Mentor junior engineers and review code for reliability, clarity, and best practices
- Collaborate with DevOps and platform teams to ensure secure and compliant deployments
- Core SkillsDeep experience with Go or Python in cloud-native contexts
- Strong Kubernetes experience: CRDs, Helm, GitOps, multi-tenant app deployments
- Experience with event-driven or agent-based systems (e.g., Kafka, controller patterns)
- Familiar with infrastructure automation (Terraform, cloud-init, Ansible)
- Comfortable balancing automation and operator oversight in complex environments
- Leadership TraitsOwns end-to-end delivery of system components
- Helps shape internal standards and shared tooling
- Guides team through design decisions and tradeoffs
- Thinks in systems, not just services