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Sr. K8/Golang Engineer (Remote, International)

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About PulsePoint:

PulsePoint is a fast-growing healthcare technology company (with adtech roots) using real-time data to transform healthcare. We help brands and agencies interpret the hard-to-read signals across the health journey and unify these digital determinants of health with real-world data to produce the most dimensional view of the customer. Our award-winning advertising platforms use machine learning and programmatic automation to seamlessly activate this data, making marketing, predictive analytics, and decision support easy and instantaneous.

Sr. Platform Engineer, Golang:

As a Sr. Platform Engineer, you will help future proof our existing k8s based platform.

What you'll be doing:

You will collect and analyze requirements from developer, data management and system reliability teams to enhance our kubernetes-based platform to meet the needs of the company.
You will implement functionality missing in open source tools we use as k8s platform components and set up CICD pipelines to run regression and release new versions of the images.
You will work with upstream project maintainers to integrate our customizations upstream if there is community interest.
You will integrate bug fixes from upstream into our forked projects for customizations we are unable to integrate into upstream projects.
You will test new versions of the platform components and prepare zero downtime upgrades for production clusters.
You will identify areas needing improvement, look for potential replacements for current platform components and stage them to confirm we will benefit from migration to the new component.
You will help the SRE team with automating cluster diagnostic and issue recovery as needed.
You will help development teams with setting up their CICD pipelines and implementing gitops for their workloads.

What you’ll need:

You can work remotely, hours can be flexible as long as you can overlap until 1 or 2pm EST

5+ years of running Kubernetes in production.
2+ years of Golang development.
Good understanding of Kubernetes APIs and concepts is needed.
Good understanding of inner workings of Kubernetes, both on the control plane and kubelet side is needed.
Good understanding of gitops principles and familiarity with tools like argo cd or flux is needed.
Familiarity with Golang's Kubernetes client library, async programming and test driven Golang development is needed.
Contributions to open source projects related to Kubernetes in Golang are welcome.
Ability to customize open source tools written in Golang is needed.
Familiarity with kube-router is welcome but not required as long as you are familiar with LVS, BGP protocol and Linux firewall.
Familiarity with project contour and/or running envoy, haproxy or nginx reverse proxies to implement external ingress into Kubernetes cluster is required.
Ability to port legacy applications to run inside of the Kubernetes cluster required, ability to package the apps as helm charts is welcome.
Ability to automate infrastructure tasks, create CICD pipelines and issue detection and recovery using Kubernetes is needed.
Ability to configure and provision monitoring and alerting using Prometheus and ability to create own metric exporters for legacy apps is needed.
Ability to configure and run centralized log aggregation using elastic search stacks is preferred but loki is also acceptable.
Ability to collect requirements and implement solutions for SRE, network engineering and app development teams is needed.

Bonus, but not required:

Ability to troubleshoot and resolve production issues under pressure is needed, ability to detect and/or automatically resolve production issues before they happen or have revenue impact is preferred.
Knowledge of kubeadm and Puppet is welcome but not required as long as you know how to bootstrap and run a highly available kubernetes cluster in a secure and automated fashion.
Knowledge of rook and ceph is welcome but not required as long as you have experience in persisting state in a cluster using other storage tools.
Familiarity with Java and Kubernetes-native Java frameworks like Quarkus is welcome but not required.
Familiarity with running workloads in GCP or AWS is welcome, but bare metal on-prem experience is preferred.

Note that this is a long-term contractor role.

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What You Should Know About Sr. K8/Golang Engineer (Remote, International), PulsePoint

At PulsePoint, we are on the lookout for a talented Sr. K8/Golang Engineer to join our innovative healthcare technology team. This fully remote position is perfect for someone passionate about leveraging Kubernetes and Golang to shape the future of healthcare technology. As a Sr. Platform Engineer, you'd be spearheading efforts to enhance our Kubernetes-based platform, using your deep knowledge of the technology to analyze requirements and implement essential functionalities that are often missing in open-source tools. Your insights will help us configure CI/CD pipelines, promote zero downtime upgrades, and collaborate with upstream project maintainers to integrate custom solutions for broader community use. We believe in continuous improvement, and you’ll play a key role in identifying areas ripe for enhancement and migration as we adapt to new technologies. If you thrive on automating infrastructure tasks and are comfortable working alongside SRE teams to optimize cluster diagnostics and recovery processes, this is the job for you. You'll need a solid background in Kubernetes and Golang, along with a proactive attitude towards learning and implementing new technologies. At PulsePoint, we’re transforming health marketing through advanced, real-time data solutions, and we can’t wait for you to be part of it! Explore our culture and find out what it's like to embark on this journey with us.

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As a Sr. K8/Golang Engineer at PulsePoint, you will focus on enhancing our Kubernetes-based platform by analyzing requirements from various teams. Your responsibilities include implementing CI/CD pipelines, collaborating with upstream project maintainers, and managing zero downtime upgrades. You'll also help automate diagnostic processes and integrate new tools and components while ensuring they meet company needs.