Fight Smart.
Senior Backend Software Engineer, Control Plane & Orchestration
Location
Costa Rica
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
₡1,500K - ₡2,500K / month
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Software Engineer, Control Plane & Orchestration
SimSpace
• Design and build the control plane API: the interface that range orchestration and scenario systems use to drive the internet simulation platform, with strong attention to idempotency, consistent error semantics, and the operational patterns that make a platform API pleasant to build on. • Own the event-driven orchestration layer that coordinates multi-step operations across the platform's subsystems, ensuring that standing up a new range, registering a persona, incorporating a SaaS application, or updating topology propagates correctly and completely across all components. • Build and maintain the platform's persistent storage layer, providing reliable, well-abstracted storage primitives for the services and subsystems that depend on it, across file, object, and container storage as requirements evolve. • Own the deployment model for the internet simulation platform itself: the Kubernetes operators or controllers that manage platform lifecycle, the upgrade and rollout strategy for a service that cannot afford downtime, and the configuration model for integrating new ranges. • Define and own the state model for the platform, what is authoritative where, how components recover from partial failures, and how the platform converges to a correct state after disruption. • Collaborate with the network simulation tech lead on the in-range proxy agent architecture, owning the infrastructure side of that interface: agent deployment, connectivity management, and the handoff model when an agent loses contact with the control plane. • Partner with the SRE team on the operational model for a new platform service, establishing runbooks, incident response procedures, and the observability instrumentation that makes the platform debuggable in production. • Contribute to cross-cutting concerns including configuration management, secrets handling, and the security posture of the control plane.
Job Requirements
- Strong bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish skills required across written, virtual, and in-person interactions.
- Experience building event-driven or message-driven systems, with an understanding of the tradeoffs involved in different coordination approaches, the implementation will be informed by the architecture, not the other way around.
- Strong Kubernetes expertise including writing operators or controllers, managing custom resources, and reasoning about multi-tenant workload isolation.
- Experience designing and operating storage systems across different storage paradigms, file, object, and block or container storage, and choosing the right abstraction for each use case.
- Experience with air-gapped or on-premises Kubernetes deployments is a strong plus given SimSpace's customer and deployment model.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and GitOps-based deployment workflows.
Benefits
- Private medical, dental, vision, and life benefits.
- Access to company-paid counseling, coaching, and resources for you and your family through Spring Health.
- Paid leave plans to support you and your loved ones during life’s most important moments.
- Equity stock options at hire, with annual performance-based grants—become an invested stakeholder in our shared success.
- Access a LinkedIn Learning membership to prioritize your personal and professional development.
- Monthly reimbursements for meaningful connections with teammates through our SocialSpace Community.
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