Senior Engineer – Orchestration

Job Description: Design, implement, and run Datum's core orchestration stack Build customer-facing solutions to help our alt-cloud ecosystem thrive Scale the management, monitoring, and metering of our edge locations Partner with leadership to advance projects with key customers, partners, and suppliers Design distributed solutions that scale from startup to hyperscale usage patterns Implement intelligent traffic routing, load balancing, and failover Build observability, monitoring, and diagnostic tools for complex environments Optimize control plane performance for AI workloads and high-bandwidth applications with our network team Drive technical networking decisions in collaboration with our open-source community Review and mentor contributions from external developers on networking components Maintain high code quality standards and documentation for network APIs Represent Datum at conferences and in technical working groups Design networking solutions that integrate seamlessly with Kubernetes and AI patterns Build network policies and security frameworks for multi-tenant cloud environments Implement service mesh integration and east-west traffic optimization Ensure compatibility with major cloud provider networking services (AWS, GCP, Azure)Requirements: 6+ years of large-scale production systems running Kubernetes with security as a first principle Strong experience with Kubernetes patterns and APIs, having written custom resources, controllers, and preferably exposure to kubebuilder Strong experience with distributed systems design, security, auth, consensus algorithms, async reconciliation, and fault tolerance Experience modeling data in Kubernetes, or transferable knowledge from RDBMS, GraphQL, information retrieval Extensive experience with multi-cloud networking and hybrid cloud connectivity Deep knowledge of Kubernetes networking, CNI plugins, and service mesh architectures Experience with infrastructure as code (Flux, Terraform, Pulumi) for provisioning Understanding of edge computing, CDN architectures, and global traffic management Familiarity with SRv6, eBPF, DPDK, VPP, mpTCP and other advanced networking technologies would be a huge plus Track record of contributing to or maintaining networking-focused open-source projects Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical decision-making in teams Understanding of open-source governance, community building, and public development Passion for building networking tools that other developers and operators love to use.Benefits: Significant public development work Transparent development in public networking repositories Engagement with the community through GitHub issues, RFCs, and technical discussions Opportunities to speak at networking conferences and write technical blog posts Collaboration with external contributors, cloud providers, and other partners