Staff Software Engineer

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<p><b>Job Description:</b></p><p><a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/datarobot">DataRobot</a> delivers AI that maximizes impact and minimizes business risk. Our platform and applications integrate into core business processes so teams can develop, deliver, and govern AI at scale. <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/datarobot">DataRobot</a> empowers practitioners to deliver predictive and generative AI, and enables leaders to secure their AI assets. Organizations worldwide rely on <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/datarobot">DataRobot</a> for AI that makes sense for their business — today and in the future. </p><p>You’ll be responsible for technical leadership and vision. You’ll lead by example—rolling up your sleeves as a technical contributor to solve complex problems, shaping architecture, and mentoring engineers to do their best work and advance their careers. You’ll work across our control plane systems, influence cross-team roadmaps, and bring pragmatic engineering practices into how we build, test, and operate infrastructure software.</p><p>This is not a “stay in your swim lane” role. You’ll question assumptions, challenge complexity, and help drive a high-performance culture. You’ll be trusted to bring clarity where there’s ambiguity, and momentum where there’s inertia.</p><p>This role includes participation in an on-call rotation—we believe in shared ownership of our platform and aim to build systems that are resilient, observable, and require minimal intervention.</p><h3><b>What You’ll Do:</b></h3><ul> <li><p>Architect and implement scalable, secure Kubernetes-based infrastructure for multi-cloud and hybrid environments.</p></li> <li><p>Lead technical direction for core Fleet initiatives—control plane services, tenancy models, deployment pipelines, observability layers, and more.</p></li> <li><p>Mentor engineers across the team, fostering a strong engineering culture of ownership, curiosity, and excellence.</p></li> <li><p>Drive modernization efforts—introducing patterns like GitOps, Policy-as-Code (Kyverno), Cilium networking, autoscaling, and better resource efficiency.</p></li> <li><p>Collaborate deeply with SRE, Platform, and Application teams to align infrastructure capabilities with real-world product demands.</p></li> <li><p>Champion best practices in CI/CD, reliability, container lifecycle management, and dev experience.</p></li> <li><p>Be a thought partner to engineering leadership and help shape how Fleet scales its impact across the company.</p></li> </ul><h3><b>What We’re Looking For:</b></h3><ul> <li><p>7-10+ years of engineering experience, with at least 5+ in infrastructure, platform, or backend systems roles.</p></li> <li><p>Strong proficiency in modern programming languages such as Python or Go. Experience building production-quality, reliable, and observable systems that are used across engineering organizations.</p></li> <li><p>Proven ability to design and build systems from scratch, making pragmatic tradeoffs along the way.</p></li> <li><p>Deep expertise in Kubernetes internals and operations, including networking, scheduling, scaling, and controller patterns.</p></li> <li><p>A growth-oriented mindset—driven to teach, learn, and improve systems as well as people.</p></li> <li><p>Experience operating across multiple cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and/or hybrid environments.</p></li> <li><p>Strong experience with Helm, container orchestration patterns, and CI/CD automation.</p></li> <li><p>Comfortable working with IaC (Terraform, Pulumi) and GitOps workflows.</p></li> <li><p>Ability to influence without authority and align diverse stakeholders around technical decisions.</p></li> </ul><h3><b>Nice to Have:</b></h3><ul> <li><p>Familiarity with Cilium, Kyverno, KEDA, Gateway API, OPA, or similar technologies.</p></li> <li><p>Experience building and running multi-tenant SaaS platforms.</p></li> <li><p>Exposure to on-prem delivery models or regulated environments.</p></li> <li><p>Experience with performance tuning for large-scale data or compute workloads.</p></li> <li><p>Past success driving infrastructure transformation or decomposing legacy systems.</p></li> <li><p>Experience working with GPU infrastructure for training and inference.</p></li> </ul><p>The talent and dedication of our employees are at the core of <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/datarobot">DataRobot</a>’s journey to be an iconic company. We strive to attract and retain the best talent by providing competitive pay and benefits with our employees’ well-being at the core. Here’s what your benefits package may include depending on your location and local legal requirements: Medical, Dental &amp; Vision Insurance, Flexible Time Off Program, Paid Holidays, Paid Parental Leave, Global Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and more!</p><p><b><a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/datarobot">DataRobot</a> Operating Principles:</b></p><ul> <li>Wow Our Customers</li> <li>Set High Standards</li> <li>Be