This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Engineer (Core & MLOps) based in Spain.
This role offers the opportunity to shape foundational infrastructure powering large-scale web data products and distributed engineering teams. You’ll own the architecture of core control and context planes that enable services and AI-driven workflows to operate reliably and efficiently. Working across Kubernetes, Kafka, Java, Python, gRPC, and multi-cloud infrastructure, you’ll tackle complex distributed systems challenges at production scale. You’ll establish engineering standards, reliability practices, and service contracts that influence multiple product squads. The role combines hands‑on architecture with technical leadership, mentoring, and cross‑functional alignment. In a globally distributed, remote‑first environment, you’ll have significant autonomy to solve challenging infrastructure problems and influence long‑term platform strategy.
Accountabilities:
- Architect and evolve the control and context planes, advancing service and schema registries, SLO enforcement, health‑aware routing, automated canary releases, and operational feedback loops.
- Own the service chassis and golden path, maintaining and improving multi‑language Java and Python client libraries, standardized workload specifications, Helm charts, and deployment pipelines.
- Define and govern inter‑service contracts, including gRPC and Protocol Buffer definitions, API gateway transcoding, versioning policies, and schema evolution standards.
- Operate and improve the core platform infrastructure across Kubernetes, Terraform, HAProxy/Nginx, Confluent Kafka, real‑time billing pipelines, Valkey, and database modernization initiatives.
- Lead architectural strategy through Requests for Discussion (RFDs) covering workflow orchestration, gateway orchestration, multi‑cluster routing, automated failover, and other critical platf
📌 Staff Engineer (España)
🏢 Lever
📍 España