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Qdrant
Berlin
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Ownership","Communication","Cross-team collaboration","Technical alignment","Architectural thinking"]

Build and evolve core platform services and internal APIs that enable Qdrant’s managed cloud offering. You’ll drive platform architecture initiatives like gRPC migration and eventing/pub-sub foundations, improve control-plane and cluster-api components, and create abstractions that reduce operational and cognitive load for other teams. Write production-grade Go code, collaborate across Regions & Clusters, Resilience, and Features, and improve scalability, reliability, and developer experience.

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Qdrant
Qdrant
4 months ago

Staff Software Engineer Platform

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Job Summary

Build and evolve core platform services and internal APIs that enable Qdrant’s managed cloud offering. You’ll drive platform architecture initiatives like gRPC migration and eventing/pub-sub foundations, improve control-plane and cluster-api components, and create abstractions that reduce operational and cognitive load for other teams. Write production-grade Go code, collaborate across Regions & Clusters, Resilience, and Features, and improve scalability, reliability, and developer experience.
Location: Berlin
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •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.
  • •Improve platform scalability, reliability, and developer experience, supporting production systems and incident response when needed.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:401kHealth InsuranceDentalVisionPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •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.
Experience:5+ yearsOpen-sourceSaaSDatabaseDistributed systems
Skills:OwnershipCommunicationCross-team collaborationTechnical alignmentArchitectural thinking
Tech Stack:GoPythonKubernetesGRPCEventingPub-subCloud-native architecturesControl-planeCluster-apiPrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetry

Company Brief

Qdrant
Develops an open-source, high-performance vector search engine and managed vector database to power semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation, and other AI applications at scale for enterprise customers.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: Berlin, Germany
Founded: 2021
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