Product Software Engineer (mid/senior) - Kubermatic Dev Platform (f,m,d)
Job description
Product engineer on the 5-person KDP (Kubermatic Development Platform) team, driving features from discovery to delivery and shaping architectural and product decisions. The role focuses on building Kubernetes operators and high-availability services in Go, with direct user engagement.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee or contractor
- Work mode
- Remote · Europe
What you'll do
- Design, build, and refine KDP features with a focus on user value and technical excellence
- Break down implementations into iterative deliverables and determine optimal rollout strategies
- Develop scalable services and Kubernetes Operators in Go that power the platform
- Own features end-to-end—from discovery through delivery—including direct engagement with users
- Stay current with customer challenges and emerging trends in the platform engineering space
- Contribute patches to upstream projects such as kcp.io when opportunities arise
- Extend the MCP server for KDP and integrate with leading AI tools
- Participate in the on-call rotation
What we're looking for
- You genuinely enjoy creating tools that make other engineers' lives easier and their work more productive
- 3+ years of professional experience with Go and 1+ year working with Kubernetes controllers and operators
- Strong proficiency in distributed systems, container technologies, Kubernetes, the cloud-native ecosystem, and AWS (or GCP)
- Ability to collaborate effectively with Product Management and cross-functional stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills, a pragmatic problem-solving mindset, genuine curiosity about customer challenges, and empathy for KDP users
Nice to have
- Experience building internal developer platforms or infrastructure-as-code solutions using Operators is a big plus
- Familiarity with feature flags and progressive delivery practices is beneficial
Your team
KDP (Kubermatic Development Platform) team
Brings self-service developer platforms to enterprises. KDP leverages kcp to deliver a novel approach for building multi-tenant platforms. By providing a centralized catalog, it simplifies the creation, integration, and management of services, greatly lowering the operational burden for DevOps, platform, and developer teams.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- B2B contracts available, with paid time off annually plus local bank holidays
- Remote-first: work from anywhere in Europe (CET ±4h)
- A dynamic yet laid-back team environment
- Regular hackathons and company offsites
- Best-in-class development tools of your choice
- Full support for training and certifications (CKA, Linux Foundation, etc.) and conference attendance
- Speaker support: we'll back you if you want to present at events
- Active community involvement: enjoy our meetups and our flagship community conference, ContainerDays
How to get hired
- 130-minute call with our People Manager
- 290-minute technical interview including a live coding challenge
- 330-minute meeting with Engineering Leadership
- 445-minute meeting with Sebastian Scheele (Technical Co-founder and CEO)
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About Kubermatic
An adaptable and autonomous software delivery startup
Kubermatic is an adaptable and autonomous software delivery startup based in Hamburg (founded 2016). Our tools are built with Kubernetes and cloud-native solutions to deliver the automated, flexible, and resilient infrastructure that modern businesses need to thrive and innovate. We're maintainers of CNCF Sandbox Project kcp and among the leading European corporate contributors to Kubernetes. Our engineering team actively contributes to CNCF projects and open-sources our core products on GitHub. We regularly present at industry conferences and community events.
Key facts
- 2016
- Hamburg, Germany
- software delivery / cloud-native infrastructure
- Maintainers of CNCF Sandbox Project kcp
- Among the leading European corporate contributors to Kubernetes
- Engineering team actively contributes to CNCF projects and open-sources core products on GitHub
- Regularly presents at industry conferences and community events
- Remote-first company