Project44 Senior Software Engineer - DevOps/SRE at Project44 responsible for designing, building, and operating foundational systems powering global logistics network. Ensure platform reliability, observability, cost-efficiency, and scalability.
Responsibilities
project44 is looking for a Senior DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineer to join our Foundations Engineering team. You will work in a fast-paced Agile environment designing, building, and operating the foundational systems that power project44's global logistics network—ensuring our platform is reliable, observable, cost-efficient, and built to scale. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and developer enablement.
Key Accountabilities: What you'll work on
Design, build, and operate core infrastructure across our primary GCP environment and secondary AWS footprint, leveraging managed services to deliver scalable, reliable, and cost-effective solutions
Own and evolve our Kubernetes (GKE) platform—cluster lifecycle management, node pool strategy, networking, RBAC, and workload reliability—ensuring developer teams can ship safely and quickly
Build and maintain Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code across cloud environments, enforcing standards for modularity, state management, and repeatable, auditable provisioning
Manage and improve our Kafka and Strimzi streaming infrastructure, supporting high-throughput event pipelines that are foundational to project44's real-time data capabilities
Lead and execute cost optimization initiatives—rightsizing compute, improving resource utilization, reducing waste, and creating visibility and accountability for cloud spend across engineering teams
Champion observability and reliability practices — SLOs/SLIs, incident response, on-call processes, and postmortems — to reduce MTTR and prevent recurrence.
Partner with application engineering teams to define and implement platform standards for deployment, scaling, service mesh, secrets management, and infrastructure security
Participate in a team on-call rotation, debugging and resolving infrastructure and platform incidents with urgency and rigor
Contribute to technical design discussions, architecture reviews, and documentation—helping set a high bar for quality, reliability, and operational excellence across the engineering organization
Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance
Qualification
Strong experience inKafka operations and architectureCloud networking fundamentalsCloud cost managementScripting or automation in Python
Required
5+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, DevOps, or a closely related role
Strong experience in:
Kubernetes administration and operations at scale (GKE strongly preferred), including cluster networking, autoscaling, workload isolation, and upgrade management
Kafka operations and architecture, including topic design, consumer group management, broker configuration, and integration with streaming workloads (Strimzi experience a plus)
Infrastructure-as-code using Terraform—module design, state management, CI-driven plan/apply workflows, and drift detection
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) across core services: GKE, GCS, Cloud NAT, VPC networking, IAM, Artifact Registry, and related managed services
Cloud observability tooling and practices—building meaningful dashboards, alerts, SLI/SLO frameworks, and runbooks regardless of the tool stack
Cloud cost management: identifying and executing on optimization opportunities, building spend visibility, and influencing engineering behavior around resource efficiency
Desirable and helpful (but not necessary):
Experience with AWS services alongside a primary GCP environment
Scripting or automation in Python, Go, Bash, or similar for operational tooling
