Software Engineer-Platform Engineering / Kubernetes

Lowe's Companies, Inc. • Charlotte, NC

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Carbon Platform Engineering team builds the cloud-native platforms that help engineering teams develop and run applications at enterprise scale. Our environment spans Kubernetes, cloud, edge, automation, virtualization, networking, and storage, giving engineers the opportunity to solve meaningful infrastructure challenges across a broad technology landscape.

As a Software Engineer, you'll help build and evolve the Kubernetes platform capabilities that power applications across the enterprise. You'll combine software engineering, automation, and hands-on Kubernetes experience to improve platform reliability, scalability, and developer experience. You'll independently own work within your area while partnering with senior engineers and specialists on broader platform architecture and complex infrastructure challenges. This is an opportunity to deepen your cloud-native and platform engineering expertise while working with technologies such as Kubernetes, KubeVirt, Go, Python, Terraform, GitOps, and public cloud.

You'll help make enterprise infrastructure more automated, reliable, and easier for engineering teams to use. You'll have room to own meaningful platform work today while continuing to grow your expertise across Kubernetes, cloud-native engineering, virtualization, and large-scale infrastructure.

Requirements

• Experience in software engineering, platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or a related engineering discipline.
• Hands-on experience working with Kubernetes in production environments.
• Strong Linux, container, and Kubernetes fundamentals.
• Experience building automation with Go, Python, and/or Shell.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code or configuration automation tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Experience with Git-based development and CI/CD or GitOps practices.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes networking, storage, and production troubleshooting.
• A software engineering mindset with an interest in automation, reliability, and solving infrastructure problems.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer information systems, or related field or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement, if applicable
• 2 years of experience in software development or a related field
• 2 years of experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (SDLC) through iterative agile development
• 2 years experience working with any of the following: frontend technologies (user interface/user experience), middleware (microservices and application programming interfaces), database technologies, or DevOps

Nice To Haves

• Experience writing technical documentation in a software environment and developing and implementing business systems within an organization.
• KubeVirt, VMware, or Kubernetes-based virtualization.
• Kubernetes platforms such as RKE2/Rancher, GKE, EKS, or AKS.
• Cloud-native technologies such as Argo CD, Helm, Istio, Vault, or Kubernetes Operators.
• Observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.
• Public cloud platforms such as Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure.
• Enterprise networking, storage, security, or developer platform capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Build, automate, and support Kubernetes platform capabilities across on-premises, edge, and cloud environments.
• Develop automation and platform services using Go, Python, Shell, APIs, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Support Kubernetes provisioning, configuration, upgrades, scaling, and lifecycle management.
• Troubleshoot production issues across Kubernetes, Linux, containers, and related infrastructure, partnering with specialists when issues span multiple domains.
• Contribute to platform capabilities across virtualization, networking, storage, observability, security, and GitOps.
• Participate in technical design discussions and help improve platform reliability, scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Identify opportunities to reduce operational toil, increase automation, and make the platform easier for application teams to use.
• Contribute to production readiness, incident response, root-cause analysis, documentation, and engineering best practices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level