Overview
At Nirmata, our mission is to accelerate adoption of cloud native technologies for enterprises. We believe that software can radically transform the world and are building a solution to help enterprises deliver and operate mission critical software at scale. Nirmata is an enterprise-grade multi-cloud Kubernetes platform.
Nirmata is a powerful, extensible platform that provides comprehensive SecOps automation through Policy-as-Code. Nirmata Control Hub (previously Nirmata Policy Manager) simplifies the enforcement of security, operational, and best practice policies across CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, and cloud services, ensuring that organizations can maintain secure, compliant, and efficient cloud-native environments.
Nirmata is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Software Engineer/Tech Lead to join our team and work on the Nirmata Policy Management cloud solution. If you are passionate about software technologies, have a strong background in Golang, and have a track record of working on innovative, large-scale systems handling substantial volumes of data and events, we invite you to apply!
Responsibilities:
- Technical Leadership: Provide strong technical leadership to the engineering team, guiding them in architecture decisions, code reviews, and best practices, with a focus on leveraging Go (Golang) effectively.
- Hands-on Development: Lead by example by actively contributing to the codebase, writing high-quality, efficient code in Go for critical components of the startup's software platform.
- Rapid Prototyping: Work closely with product managers and designers to rapidly prototype and iterate on new features and ideas, leveraging Go to build scalable and innovative solutions.
- Scalable Architecture: Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant, and highly available systems using Go, ensuring that the architecture can support the startup's growth and scalability requirements.
- Modern Tech Stack: Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in Go and software engineering, evaluating new tools, frameworks, and libraries to improve the startup's tech stack and development processes. Proficient in contemporary architectural methodologies encompassing NoSQL databases, scalable database systems, message queuing, and distributed caching.
- Technical Strategy: Contribute to the technical roadmap and long-term vision of the startup, identifying opportunities for innovation and differentiation through technology.
- Problem Solving: Act as a technical mentor and coach for other engineers, helping them troubleshoot complex technical issues and develop their problem-solving skills.
Qualifications:
- Previous experience working in an environment where problem definitions are not precise, preferably in a technical leadership role, with a strong understanding of the challenges and dynamics of such an ecosystem.
- Expertise in Go: Extensive hands-on experience with Go (Golang) development, including a deep understanding of language internals, concurrency patterns, and performance optimization techniques.
- Cloud-native Architecture: Experience designing and deploying cloud-native applications on platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure, leveraging containerization (e.g., Docker) and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
- Communication Skills: Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Degree in Computer Science or related field: A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is typically required, although relevant work experience may suffice.
ABOUT NIRMATA
Nirmata empowers organizations to innovate rapidly without compromising security or compliance. With Gartner forecasting that 99% of cloud security failures will result from misconfigurations by 2027, Nirmata's policy-as-code platform offers a proactive solution. Nirmata's highly customizable policies seamlessly integrate with your cloud-native environments, ensuring robust governance and security at scale. Trusted by top financial institutions and global enterprises—and with over 3.2 billion downloads of Kyverno, Nirmata's open source policy engine —Kyverno simplifies compliance, mitigates risk, and accelerates the enterprise journey to secure innovation.
Nirmata’s success is built on the diverse contributions of its employees. We're committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone's perspective is valued, and we do not discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital, veteran, or disability status. All application information will be kept confidential in accordance with EEO guidelines.
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