Description:
Your experience at Deel will be a career accelerator. At the forefront of the global work revolution, you'll tackle complex challenges that impact millions of people's working lives. With our momentum—backed by a $17.3 billion valuation and $1 B in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in just over five years—you'll drive meaningful impact while building expertise that makes you a sought-after leader in the transformation of global work.
Get ready to:
- Be a part of a truly cross-functional team
- Participate in product planning (From discovery all the way to deployment); We want your input at all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle!
- Collaborate! Our teams work together to develop robust new features, API’s, continuously improve our industry-leading products and find and fix any bugs at Deel Speed.
- Ensure our customers receive a white-glove experience with our products!
What The Giger Team Does
The Giger team builds and maintains one of Deel’s most powerful internal platforms: a sandbox system that enables engineers to develop, test, and deploy faster than ever. Giger allows product teams to spin up fully functional, production-like environments in minutes, complete with real databases, services, queues, and storage. Each sandbox is completely isolated, empowering teams to experiment freely, test infrastructure changes, and validate code safely at scale.
Who We’re Looking For
- 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Infrastructure or Platform Engineering
- Strong BE engineering skills: API design, Postgres, Kafka/Nats
- Node.js/Go/Python background
- Experience with AWS/GCP/Azure
- Advanced experience with Kubernetes, including creating tools, controllers, or operators that extend its capabilities
- Experience with all the standard Kubernetes tools:
- networking (ingress controllers, CoreDNS, external-dns, AWS LBC, oauth2-proxy)
- secret management (Vault, External Secrets)
- cluster autoscaling and resource tuning (Karpenter, VPA, goldilocks, KEDA)
- storage provisioning
- Experience with Helm charts and GitOps
- Experience working with and maintaining large k8s clusters: 1000 nodes, 30k+ pods
- Excellent system design and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities across multiple teams
- Hands-on mindset, comfortable working in complex and evolving environments
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and maintain the control plane that powers hundreds of dynamic developer sandboxes
- Develop backend tooling and services that automate sandbox creation, orchestration, and lifecycle management
- Productize and provide infra as a platform including DBs, caches, object storage and queueing systems
- Scale & tune the cluster to provide capacity for volatile workloads. You’ll become hands on with Karpenter/VPA/KEDA policies, right-sizing, pod density, bin-packing, and scheduling strategies for diverse, bursty workloads
- Constantly track and optimize costs to be efficient. At our k8s scale all tiny decisions matter, from compute to storage and data transfer
- Own the networking setup to mimic what we have in Production but pair it with greater DevEx at scale of hundreds of sandboxes - traffic routing and interception, ingress tuning, serving assets
- Implement and evolve observability within sandboxes
- Partner with Sandboxes SRE team to ensure uptime and reliability of hundreds of sandboxes daily
- Work with Deel engineering to improve their DevEx and productize day to day needs into self-service platform