Staff/Senior Software Engineer - Platform

Qdrant is a cutting-edge vector database company on a mission to revolutionize how organizations manage and query unstructured data. Our open-source engine and managed cloud solutions power AI-driven search, recommendation, and data discovery at scale.

As a Staff/Senior Software Engineer on the Platform team, you will work on the core cloud platform that enables all other engineering teams at Qdrant. You’ll design and evolve shared services, control-plane components, and internal APIs that power our managed cloud offering and support enterprise-grade deployments.

This role is about building platform primitives and abstractions, not day-to-day operations. You’ll focus on reducing complexity, improving developer productivity, and driving architectural evolution across the cloud platform.

Tasks

• Design and evolve core platform services and internal APIs consumed by multiple teams
• Drive architectural initiatives such as gRPC migration, eventing/pub-sub foundations, and platform refactors
• Own and improve control-plane and cluster-api components
• Build platform abstractions that reduce operational and cognitive load for other teams
• Write production-grade Go code for platform services and internal tooling
• Collaborate closely with Regions & Clusters, Resilience, and Features teams to enable delivery through platform primitives
• Improve platform scalability, reliability, and developer experience through thoughtful design
• Support production systems and incident response when needed, with a focus on long-term fixes

Requirements

Must have

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer working on platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems
• Strong proficiency in Go and Python, or deep expertise in one with willingness to work regularly with both
• Solid experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and API design
• Experience building and operating production systems used by other engineers or teams
• Comfortable working cross-team and driving technical alignment
• Ownership mindset and clear communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience with gRPC, event-driven architectures, or control-plane systems
• Familiarity with Kubernetes operators or cluster-level abstractions
• Background in SaaS, database, or systems-level product companies
• Experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Contributions to open-source projects

Benefits

• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits
• Fully remote setup with flexible working hours
• High-impact role with strong ownership and architectural influence
• Opportunity to work on a core platform used across the entire company
• Clear growth path toward Staff Engineer or Architecture roles

If you enjoy building platforms that enable others to move faster, reduce complexity, and scale reliably, we’d love to hear from you. Join us and help shape the foundation of Qdrant Cloud.

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