Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform (EMEA)

Qdrant

19h • Remote

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer on Qdrant’s Cloud Platform team, you will build and operate shared foundations used by other Cloud teams. This includes core control-plane services, authentication, security, developer tooling, and access paths into Qdrant Cloud for people and AI agents. The role combines hardening and operating existing services with building new ones, with a focus on secure defaults and improving engineering-wide productivity.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of software engineering experience, including substantial experience in platform, backend, or infrastructure work.
• Strong proficiency in Go.
• Experience designing and operating production APIs and backend services using gRPC or REST.
• Solid experience running services on Kubernetes in production.
• Working knowledge of authentication and authorization, including OAuth2/OIDC, tokens, and API keys, and secure-by-default design.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience with CI/CD and automated testing.
• Comfort participating in on-call rotations and handling production incidents.
• Ownership mindset and clear communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building internal platforms or developer tooling used by other engineering teams.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform.
• Background in SaaS, database, or systems-level product companies.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core control-plane services in Go.
• Develop and maintain platform-wide security, audit, authentication, and authorization capabilities.
• Build sign-in and access mechanisms for people and AI agents using the API, CLI, and MCP, including OAuth flows.
• Improve developer experience and delivery through CI/CD, testing, and pull-request safety checks, including checks for AI-written code.
• Strengthen platform observability through monitoring, logging, alerting, and metrics.
• Reduce operational load through engineering improvements.
• Participate in on-call for platform services, including incident response and root cause analysis.
• Work closely with the Cluster Lifecycle, Operations, and Billing & IAM teams.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with additional perks.
• Flexible working hours and an async-friendly culture.
• Choose your own laptop equipment.
• For US-based full-time employees: 401(k) match, health, dental, and vision insurance, and a flexible PTO policy.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed