About the roleFormal secures billions of requests daily. Join a small team tackling the infrastructure behind that scale: Kafka-to-Quickwit log ingestion, fast search and APIs, and reliable cloud and on-prem deployments. You'll help lead our move to Kubernetes and make the platform easier to deploy, operate, and upgrade in our cloud and customer environments.
What you'll do- Lead our migration to Kubernetes and operate reliable clusters, networking, access controls, and data services.
- Scale Kafka-to-Quickwit ingestion and search; improve throughput, indexing lag, API latency, and storage costs.
- Build repeatable on-prem installations and upgrades, including configuration, data migrations, and rollback.
- Establish useful alerts and reliability targets; lead incident response and eliminate recurring failures.
- Automate provisioning with Terraform and Helm; improve CI/CD, capacity planning, backups, and recovery.
What you need- Experience building and operating production cloud infrastructure on AWS or Google Cloud using Terraform.
- Experience operating production Kubernetes clusters, including deployments, ingress, autoscaling, and upgrades.
- Strong Linux and networking fundamentals, including DNS, TLS, and load balancing.
- Experience with Go, Python, Rust, or another relevant programming language.
- Experience with CI/CD, observability, and operating data pipelines or distributed APIs in production.
- A track record of automating operational work and owning services through incidents and upgrades.
Nice-to-haves- Experience deploying and supporting on-prem software across customer networks and infrastructure.
- Experience with Quickwit or similar search systems, Kafka, PostgreSQL, or Temporal.
- Experience with Helm, Bazel, self-hosted CI runners, or environments for AI coding agents.
Compensation- This role offers cash compensation and a stock options grant.
- The positioning of offers within a certain range depends on various factors, including: candidate experience, qualifications, skills, business requirements and geographical location.
Benefits (for U.S.-based full-time employees)- 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
- Partially covered for your dependents
- Flexible PTO
