Mount Thor is hiring a software engineer to build the customer-facing control plane and managed services for our compute platform.
The TeamThe Platform team owns Mount Thor's customer-facing control plane and managed services. It builds the APIs and software customers use to create, configure, and operate compute environments.
The team owns service lifecycle, workload orchestration, tenancy, and integrations with fleet, networking, storage, identity, and security. Its scope includes managed Kubernetes and other services for deploying AI workloads.
In this role you will- Design, build, and operate managed Kubernetes and other customer-facing infrastructure services.
- Build control-plane services, Kubernetes operators, and controllers.
- Automate managed-service lifecycle, including cluster creation, version upgrades, configuration changes, and safe deletion. Coordinate with Fleet for the underlying capacity.
- Build APIs and tools that customers use to deploy, manage, and monitor workloads.
- Integrate orchestration with compute, networking, storage, identity, and security systems.
- Improve service availability, isolation, performance, observability, and upgrade safety.
- Work directly with customers and Product to define and deliver new platform capabilities.
- Use coding agents throughout design, implementation, testing, debugging, and operations.
- Participate in on-call and own the systems you build in production.
You might thrive in this role if you have- Built customer-facing infrastructure products or managed cloud services.
- Experience building distributed systems, control planes, operators, or controllers.
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes internals and cluster lifecycle management.
- Strong programming skills in Go, Python, Rust, or a similar language.
- Strong knowledge of Linux, containers, networking, storage, and security.
- Experience building reliable multi-tenant services and public APIs.
- Led complex infrastructure work from design through production.
- Experience using coding agents to build production software.
Bonus Skills- Built a managed Kubernetes, Slurm, inference, database, or container service.
- Built Kubernetes schedulers, operators, admission controllers, CNI plugins, or CSI plugins.
- Worked on bare-metal, HPC, or AI compute infrastructure.
- Built private networking, workload isolation, or enterprise identity features.
- Operated macOS or Apple Silicon infrastructure at scale.
- Built infrastructure that software agents can operate safely.
