Staff Site Reliability Engineer — Project Volcano

Kong Inc.

United States
Not specified; not specified; not specified
Remote
Staff or principal ic level experience
Deep kubernetes expertise and multi-tenant design
Gitops with argocd, helm, and terraform
This role serves as the founding reliability voice for Project Volcano, an internal developer platform driven by the Office of the CTO

Job Summary

  • This role serves as the founding reliability voice for Project Volcano, an internal developer platform driven by the Office of the CTO.
  • The successful candidate will architect multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure and establish comprehensive GitOps and CI/CD backbones from the ground up.
  • You will partner directly with engineering leadership to define SLOs, error budgets, and a blameless postmortem culture for all Volcano services.

Matching Summary

This role serves as the founding reliability voice for Project Volcano, an internal developer platform driven by the Office of the CTO.

Salary

Not specified; Not specified; Not specified

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Staff or Principal IC level experience
  • Deep Kubernetes expertise and multi-tenant design
  • GitOps with ArgoCD, Helm, and Terraform
  • Managed PostgreSQL cluster operations
  • Observability implementation with Datadog

Nice-to-have

  • Experience with serverless compute architectures
  • Knowledge of vector databases and AI-native infra
  • Mentoring engineers on reliability principles
  • Background in edge deployment pipelines

Key Requirements

  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent
  • Substantial experience at Staff or Principal IC level
  • Proven track record building SRE practices for greenfield platforms

Work Rights

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