Software Engineer - DBaaS Serverless

Astra DB is a wildly successful cloud-native database as a service (DBaaS) powered by Apache Cassandra. We're looking for a software engineer to join our Astra Platform Infrastructure team. Our team owns the foundational infrastructure and services that enable customers to launch and manage their Astra DB instances.What you will do:Design, develop, and maintain a wide variety of software and cloud infrastructure for DataStax's Astra platform infrastructure, providing a "platform as a service" to internal customers, and providing a seamless database and streaming management experience to DataStax's cloud customers.Design, develop, and maintain software microservices, primarily for use to provision and manage cloud databases.Codify best practices by creating tools, APIs and SDKs, and utilities which enable and accelerate the development of our infrastructure and distributed services.Participate in on-call activities, acting as a secondary on-call support person for Production Engineering teams who require assistance with complex production issues.Is passionate about software quality, improving the design/development process, and building highly available systemsEnjoys a highly diverse, collaborative, and cross-functional environmentStays abreast of modern technologies and practices especially in cloud native spaceFosters long-term team success and contributes to a healthy work environment. Required education Bachelor's Degree Preferred education Master's Degree Required technical and professional expertise 4-6 years of relevant experienceSolid experience with / proficiency with public cloud infrastructure - at least one of Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure.Expertise in Kubernetes, including configuration, usage as an application platform, maintenance, scaling, networking and troubleshooting.Solid understanding of Kubernetes and cloud network concepts such as ingress controllers, CNI, VPCs, NAT, and Private Link4-6+ years of development experience with programming languages such as Go/Python/Java (preferably Go)Experience building highly scalable distributed systems on KubernetesExpertise in infrastructure configuration management tools like Terraform and Crossplane..Experience with Kubernetes development using tools and libraries like operator-sdk, kubebuilder, controller-runtime, and client-go.