Deel is seeking a Back-End/Infra Engineer with expertise in Kubernetes and Node.js to join the Giger team, which builds and maintains a powerful internal sandbox platform enabling engineers to develop, test, and deploy rapidly. You will design, scale, and maintain infrastructure that powers hundreds of dynamic developer sandboxes, ensuring high performance, reliability, and developer experience. This role is critical in supporting Deel’s mission to enable the future of global work through scalable, secure, and efficient infrastructure.
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. You’ll become hands on with Karpenter/VPA/KEDA policies, right-sizing, pod density, bin-packing, and scheduling strategies for diverse, bursty workloads
- Constantly track and optimize costs to be efficient. At our k8s scale all tiny decisions matter, from compute to storage and data transfer
- Own the networking setup to mimic what we have in Production but pair it 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)
- Experience with all the standard Kubernetes tools: secret management (Vault, External Secrets)
- Experience with all the standard Kubernetes tools: cluster autoscaling and resource tuning (Karpenter, VPA, goldilocks, KEDA)
- Experience with all the standard Kubernetes tools: 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
Kubernetes, Node.js, Go, Python, AWS, GCP, Azure, Postgres, Kafka, Nats, Helm, GitOps, Vault, External Secrets, Karpenter, VPA, KEDA, goldilocks, CoreDNS, external-dns, AWS LBC, oauth2-proxy, Ingress controllers, Storage provisioning
Team & Environment
Part of a 7,000-person team spanning 100+ countries, working in a cross-functional, distributed engineering structure.
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
- Scalable benefits, rewards, and perks reflecting inclusivity and access for all
- Equal opportunity employer with commitment to diversity and inclusion
- Accommodations provided on request for applicants with disabilities
- Remote work flexibility
Work Mode
Fully remote with flexibility across 100+ countries, including optional WeWork access.
Deel is 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. Deel is committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects different abilities, backgrounds, beliefs, experiences, identities and perspectives. Accommodations are provided on request for applicants with disabilities.
