Senior Platform Engineer, Crossplane

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🇧🇷 Brazil – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Virtasant is a cloud services and optimization company that helps businesses migrate to, manage, and build on public cloud platforms. They combine a proprietary automation platform with managed services and FinOps expertise to reduce cloud costs (claiming average savings of over 50%), support Cloud FinOps programs, and deliver outcome-based engagements rather than hourly or seat-based billing. Virtasant also provides enterprise AI guidance and partners with major cloud providers (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) to deliver migration, optimization, and 24/7 managed operations.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and operate production Kubernetes clusters, including networking, workload isolation, and multi-region topologies • Build and extend infrastructure orchestration using Crossplane, Kubernetes custom resources, controllers, and operators • Develop reusable, self-service platform capabilities for engineering teams • Implement and operate service mesh capabilities, including mTLS, service-account authentication and authorization, and traffic management • Optimize containerized workloads for performance, cost, resource efficiency, and blast-radius reduction • Write, refactor, and maintain production services, Kubernetes controllers, operators, and platform middleware • Build HTTP, REST, and gRPC service interfaces • Write unit and integration tests • Lead incident response and resolve root causes of platform-level issues • Troubleshoot production Kubernetes infrastructure and distributed systems using logs, metrics, traces, and profiling tools • Define and drive SLOs and actionable alerting • Design and maintain reusable Terraform modules and Crossplane abstractions • Develop and improve Crossplane, Terraform, and GitOps provisioning workflows • Build and improve CI/CD and GitOps delivery workflows • Support cloud migration initiatives while maintaining reliability and minimizing downtime • Build and maintain metrics, dashboards, alerting policies, and distributed tracing • Instrument platform components for diagnosability • Partner with data engineering, product, security, and infrastructure teams on requirements and architecture • Contribute to design reviews and technical direction • Mentor engineers and improve platform engineering practices • Independently drive complex infrastructure initiatives and communicate decisions, trade-offs, and progress

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience in software, platform, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering • Significant experience operating production distributed systems • Demonstrated experience building and operating production Kubernetes platforms • Production software development experience in Go, Python, or Java; Go strongly preferred • Experience building infrastructure or internal developer platforms consumed by multiple engineering teams • Experience designing, developing, and maintaining reusable Terraform modules or equivalent infrastructure abstractions • Experience independently designing systems from an ambiguous starting point through implementation and production • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals, including CNI networking, NetworkPolicy, resource management, scheduling, cluster lifecycle, and behavior under load • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes APIs, custom resources, controllers/operators, and reconciliation patterns • Experience with declarative infrastructure orchestration and provisioning; Crossplane highly preferred • Infrastructure as Code at scale, particularly Terraform module design and ownership • Strong understanding of GitOps practices, preferably with Argo CD • Hands-on experience with a service mesh such as Istio, Envoy, or Linkerd, including mTLS and workload identity • Solid Linux fundamentals, including cgroups, networking, and resource management • Production experience with at least one major cloud platform: GCP, AWS, or Azure • Observability tooling experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and query languages such as PromQL • Production experience with relational databases, including PostgreSQL or managed Postgres-compatible services • Docker and container tooling experience • Strong debugging and performance profiling skills • Preferred experience with Crossplane Compositions, XRDs, providers, managed resources, or custom infrastructure abstractions • Preferred open-source contributions to CNCF or Kubernetes ecosystem projects • Preferred experience with large-scale data platforms and Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, or Apache Spark • Preferred Alibaba Cloud experience • Preferred Kubernetes certifications such as CKA, CKAD, or KCNA • Preferred Go testing frameworks such as Ginkgo and Gomega • Preferred identity and access management experience with SSO, Keycloak, OIDC, SAML, or Vault • Preferred high availability and disaster recovery design across regions or providers • Preferred monorepo and Bazel experience • Ability to read Java • Exposure to compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or GDPR • Strong analytical and problem-solving ability • Clear written and verbal communication • Highly autonomous and proactive • Comfortable in a fast-moving, highly technical environment

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • Pacific Hours (8:00 AM – 5:00 PM PST) • Opportunity to work on a large-scale data platform processing approximately 400,000 pipelines daily • Mentorship and collaboration with data engineering, product, security, and infrastructure teams

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