Deel is looking for a Back-End/Infra Engineer to join the Giger team. You will build and maintain the internal sandbox platform that powers dynamic developer environments, designing and scaling the control plane to improve developer efficiency and experience.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and maintain the control plane that powers hundreds of dynamic developer sandboxes.
- Develop backend tooling and services that automate sandbox creation, orchestration, and lifecycle management.
- Productize and provide infra as a platform including DBs, caches, object storage and queueing systems.
- Scale & tune the cluster to provide capacity for volatile workloads, working with Karpenter/VPA/KEDA policies, right-sizing, pod density, bin-packing, and scheduling strategies.
- Constantly track and optimize costs to be efficient across compute, storage and data transfer.
- Own the networking setup to mimic Production with greater DevEx at scale of hundreds of sandboxes - traffic routing and interception, ingress tuning, serving assets.
- Implement and evolve observability within sandboxes.
- Partner with Sandboxes SRE team to ensure uptime and reliability of hundreds of sandboxes daily.
- Work with Deel engineering to improve their DevEx and productize day to day needs into self-service platform.
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Infrastructure or Platform Engineering.
- Strong BE engineering skills: API design, Postgres, Kafka/Nats.
- Node.js/Go/Python background.
- Experience with AWS/GCP/Azure.
- Advanced experience with Kubernetes, including creating tools, controllers, or operators that extend its capabilities.
- Experience with all the standard Kubernetes tools: networking (ingress controllers, CoreDNS, external-dns, AWS LBC, oauth2-proxy), secret management (Vault, External Secrets), cluster autoscaling and resource tuning (Karpenter, VPA, goldilocks, KEDA), storage provisioning.
- Experience with Helm charts and GitOps.
- Experience working with and maintaining large k8s clusters: 1000 nodes, 30k+ pods.
- Excellent system design and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities across multiple teams.
- Hands-on mindset, comfortable working in complex and evolving environments.
Nice to Have
- Have built internal developer platforms (in-house or with tools like Okteto, Gitpod, Crafting) or Kubernetes operators.
- Have production experience with Postgres Operators, e.g. CloudNativePG or Zalando.
- Have multi-region and multi-cloud experience.
Technical Stack
- Node.js, Go, Python
- Postgres, Kafka, Nats
- AWS, GCP, Azure
- Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps
- Vault, Karpenter, VPA, KEDA
Team & Environment
Part of the cross-functional Giger team, which builds and maintains Deel's internal sandbox platform.
Benefits & Compensation
- Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location.
- Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country.
- The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access.
Work Mode
This is a global remote position.
At Deel, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity and positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of race, religion, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy or maternity or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
