Design, implement, and run Datum's core orchestration stack
Build customer-facing solutions to help our alt-cloud ecosystem thrive
Scale the management, monitoring, and metering of our edge locations
Partner with leadership to advance projects with key customers, partners, and suppliers
Design distributed solutions that scale from startup to hyperscale usage patterns
Implement intelligent traffic routing, load balancing, and failover
Build observability, monitoring, and diagnostic tools for complex environments
Optimize control plane performance for AI workloads and high-bandwidth applications with our network team
Drive technical networking decisions in collaboration with our open-source community
Review and mentor contributions from external developers on networking components
Maintain high code quality standards and documentation for network APIs
Represent Datum at conferences and in technical working groups
Design networking solutions that integrate seamlessly with Kubernetes and AI patterns
Build network policies and security frameworks for multi-tenant cloud environments
Implement service mesh integration and east-west traffic optimization
Ensure compatibility with major cloud provider networking services (AWS, GCP, Azure)

6+ years of large-scale production systems running Kubernetes with security as a first principle
Strong experience with Kubernetes patterns and APIs, having written custom resources, controllers, and preferably exposure to kubebuilder
Strong experience with distributed systems design, security, auth, consensus algorithms, async reconciliation, and fault tolerance
Experience modeling data in Kubernetes, or transferable knowledge from RDBMS, GraphQL, information retrieval
Extensive experience with multi-cloud networking and hybrid cloud connectivity
Deep knowledge of Kubernetes networking, CNI plugins, and service mesh architectures
Experience with infrastructure as code (Flux, Terraform, Pulumi) for provisioning
Understanding of edge computing, CDN architectures, and global traffic management
Familiarity with SRv6, eBPF, DPDK, VPP, mpTCP and other advanced networking technologies would be a huge plus
Track record of contributing to or maintaining networking-focused open-source projects
Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical decision-making in teams
Understanding of open-source governance, community building, and public development
Passion for building networking tools that other developers and operators love to use.

Significant public development work
Transparent development in public networking repositories
Engagement with the community through GitHub issues, RFCs, and technical discussions
Opportunities to speak at networking conferences and write technical blog posts
Collaboration with external contributors, cloud providers, and other partners

Senior Engineer – Orchestration

Key skills