Qdrant is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - Platform and Reliability to join our global team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and operating our cloud-native infrastructure, building and scaling a reliable, cost-efficient platform for delivering vector database solutions worldwide. You will operate at the intersection of software engineering and infrastructure.

What You'll Do

Design, implement, and operate our cloud-native platform architecture.
Build and maintain Kubernetes clusters and develop custom Kubernetes operators.
Write production-grade Go code for platform services and automation tooling.
Optimize cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) for performance, cost, and reliability.
Improve observability across the platform through monitoring, logging, and alerting.
Automate workflows and integrations across systems and tools.
Collaborate with engineering, operations, and data teams to understand and support their infrastructure needs.
Contribute to incident response, root cause analysis, and system hardening.
Continuously improve performance, developer experience, and reliability at scale.

What We're Looking For

5–7+ years of experience in platform engineering or SRE roles.
Strong proficiency in Go and Python, or deep expertise in one and willingness to work with both.
Deep experience developing Kubernetes operators.
Solid grasp of distributed systems and microservices architecture.
Hands-on experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
Understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and automation best practices.
Comfort participating in on-call rotations and managing production incidents.
A proactive, ownership-driven mindset and strong communication skills.

Nice to Have

Prior work in a SaaS, database, or systems-level product company.
Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and service meshes (e.g., Istio, Linkerd).
Familiarity with observability standards like OpenTelemetry.
Contributions to open-source projects.