Develop and implement a comprehensive observability strategy for self-hosted deployments, including infrastructure and tooling for monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting.
Engineer the Acra platform for high availability and fault tolerance.
Guarantee 99.9% uptime for the platform's control plane and deployment management.
Architect and implement a highly available deployment setup for applications within the Acra platform.
Create and maintain robust backup and recovery strategies for all Valarian products, ensuring data integrity and minimal downtime in the event of a failure.
Integrate and manage an incident detection and paging solution to ensure rapid response to critical issues and minimize service disruptions.
Scale the Acra platform and applications to support large concurrent user bases (25+ users) and sustained daily usage.
Collaborate closely with the product engineering team to influence the design and implementation of new products and features, ensuring they meet our reliability and scalability standards from the outset.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science or a related field is desired; relevant practical experience will also be considered.
Proficiency with programming languages like Go, Bash, Python.
Deep experience with Kubernetes security: RBAC, PodSecurityPolicies (or their replacements), Admission Controllers and Kubernetes network policies.
Proficiency in secure networking practices, including TLS, mutual TLS (mTLS), ingress/egress controls and VPN tunneling configurations.
Proven experience operating and securing service mesh technologies (e.g. Istio, Linkerd, or Consul Connect).
Hands on experience with HashiCorp Vault in production, including dynamic secrets engines, auth backends and policy design.
Practical knowledge of HAProxy or equivalent reverse proxies/load balancers, with experience configuring L4/L7 security protections.
Familiarity with CVE triage workflows and integrating vulnerability scanners into CI/CD and registry workflows.
Exposure to runtime security tooling (e.g. Falco, eBPF-based monitoring) and familiarity with basic incident response workflows.
Comfort representing engineering in external calls with auditors, pentesters and security vendors; able to explain infrastructure decisions in security terms.
Familiarity with compliance standards (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc) and cloud security postures in AWS, Azure or GCP would be preferable but not essential.
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity grants
Employer pension contributions;
Platinum healthcare benefit;
Basic Life / AD&D and long-term disability insurance 100% covered by Valarian
Hybrid work arrangements are managed at team level
Generous holiday calendar and PTO
Relocation assistance (depending on role eligibility)
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