The Digital Modernization Sector has an exciting career opportunity for an Kubernetes Engineer Colorado Springs, CO to support the US Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC), Operational Command and Control Acquisition Delta, known as Kobayashi Maru. This role is instrumental in the development and deployment of mission critical software for space defense, space domain awareness, and enabling data services. This role Primary Responsibilities: Design, implement, and maintain highly available Kubernetes clusters across cloud and on-prem environments. Automate infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and scaling using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines. Develop and manage Helm charts for application deployment and configuration management. Deploy and manage applications on cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Monitor and troubleshoot Kubernetes workloads, networking, and persistent storage solutions. Implement Kubernetes security best practices, including RBAC, network policies, and container runtime security. Optimize performance and reliability of containerized applications in distributed systems. Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to enhance DevOps workflows and cloud-native application delivery. Integrate Kubernetes with service meshes, logging, and observability tools such as Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack. Participate in system upgrades, disaster recovery planning, and compliance initiatives such as NIST, CIS Benchmarks, and FedRAMP. Mentor junior engineers and contribute to knowledge sharing within the organization. Basic Qualifications: Requires BS and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6+ years of prior relevant experience, additional years of experience will be accepted in lieu of a degree. Minimum 5+ years of experience working with Kubernetes in production environments. Must have a DoD-8570 IAT Level 2 baseline certification (Security+ CE or equivalent) to start and maintain. Must have Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), and Azure Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional or equivalent cloud certifications. Strong expertise in Kubernetes administration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning. Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and their Kubernetes services (EKS, AKS, GKE). Proficiency in containerization technologies like Docker and container runtime management. Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation). Experience with CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or Tekton. Deep knowledge of Kubernetes networking (Calico, Cilium, Istio, or Linkerd) and storage solutions (Ceph, Portworx, Longhorn). Expertise in monitoring and logging with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry. Strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, or Golang for automation. Familiarity with Kubernetes security best practices, including Pod Security Standards, RBAC, and image scanning tools (Trivy, Aqua, or Falco). Experience with GitOps methodologies (ArgoCD, FluxCD) Knowledge of serverless computing and Kubernetes-based event-driven architectures Familiarity with service meshes and API gateways (Istio, Envoy, Traefik) Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform security tools and configurations. Proficiency in cloud security frameworks such as CSA CCM (Cloud Controls Matrix), FedRAMP, or similar. Experience embedding security in CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab, or GitHub Actions. Experience with automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation) and scripting languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell, or Bash). Extensive experience with containerization and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. Knowledge of hybrid cloud networking (e.g., VPNs, ExpressRoute, Direct Connect). Experience with DevSecOps pipelines and integration Experience working in agile development and DevOps-driven environments. US Citizen and Possession of a current Active DoD TS/SCI Clearance Preferred Qualifications Master’s degree in computer science Multi-Cluster & Hybrid Deployments – Experience managing federated or multi-cluster Kubernetes environments across hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. Custom Kubernetes Operators – Developing and maintaining Kubernetes Operators using the Operator SDK (Go, Python, or Ansible). Cluster API (CAPI) Expertise – Experience with Cluster API for managing Kubernetes lifecycle across cloud providers. Advanced Scheduling & Tuning – Custom scheduling, affinity/anti-affinity rules, and performance optimization for workloads. Kubernetes Hardening – Deep knowledge of CIS benchmarks, PodSecurityPolicies (PSP), and Kyverno or Open Policy Agent (OPA). Original Posting: March 31, 2025 For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above. Pay Range: Pay Range $104,650.00 - $189,175.00 The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law. Leidos Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world's most vexing challenges in national security and health. The company's global workforce of 47,000 collaborates to create smarter technology solutions for customers in heavily regulated industries. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenue of approximately $15.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2023. For more information visit www.Leidos.com. Pay and Benefits Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available here. Securing Your Data Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information at any part of the employment application process. And Leidos will communicate with you only through emails that are sent from a Leidos.com email address. If you receive an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information, please report the email to [email protected]. Commitment and Diversity All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Docker, DevOps, Cloud, API, Junior, Golang and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $80,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\n6314 Remote/Teleworker US

\nAre you ready to power the World's connections?\n\n\nIf you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply.  Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.\n\n\nAbout the role:\n\n\nAs a Senior Software Engineer at Kong, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and optimizing our cutting-edge API gateway and cloud-native connectivity solutions. You’ll work on high-performance, scalable software that empowers organizations to manage APIs and microservices efficiently across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.\n\n\nAt Kong, we are revolutionizing API connectivity with open-source and enterprise-grade solutions that power some of the world’s most demanding applications. The team’s core products, Kong Gateway Operator and Kong Ingress Controller, enable seamless, secure, and intelligent service connectivity for modern architectures, including Kubernetes, multi-cloud, and service mesh deployments. If you're passionate about distributed systems, cloud-native technologies, and high-performance APIs, we’d love to hear from you!\n\n\n\nWhat You'll be doing: \n* Designing, developing, and maintaining Kong’s Gateway Operator and Ingress Controller to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability.\n* Contributing to open-source projects and engaging with the community to drive innovation in API connectivity.\n* Collaborating with cross-functional teams (engineering, product, DevOps) to build new features and enhance existing functionality.\n* Writing clean, efficient, and well-tested code in Golang while ensuring high code quality through automated testing and peer reviews.\n* Optimizing performance for high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.\n* Building and maintaining integrations with Kubernetes and cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).\n* Participating in technical design discussions, architecting solutions, and contributing to technical roadmaps.\n* Troubleshooting complex system issues and ensuring high availability and resilience.\n* Mentoring junior engineers and fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.\n* Staying up to date with emerging trends in cloud computing, Kubernetes, and service meshes.\n\n\n\nWhat you'll bring:\n* 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend development.\n* Proficiency in Golang (or strong experience in another modern programming language with the ability to ramp up in Golang).\n* Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and the wider cloud-native ecosystem.\n* Experience designing and building high-performance, scalable distributed systems.\n* Familiarity with APIs, microservices, and networking (L4/L7 concepts).\n* Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and debugging techniques in cloud environments.\n* Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.\n* Ability to contribute to and navigate open-source projects.\n* Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently in a remote-first, distributed team.\n* Excellent communication skills, with a passion for knowledge sharing and mentoring.\n* This position is open to remote candidates located in (Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Sweden and UK).\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Kong: \n\n\nKong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). As the innovation leader of cloud API technologies, Kong is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become "API-first" and securely accelerate AI adoption.  Kong helps organizations globally - from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises - unleash developer productivity, build securely and accelerate to market.\n\n\n83% of web traffic today is API calls!  APIs are the connective tissue of the cloud and the underlying technology that allows software to talk and interact with one another.  Therefore, we believe that APIs act as the nervous system of the cloud.  Our audacious mission is to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!  \n\n\nFor more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter.\n\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Testing, Cloud, API, Senior, Junior, Golang, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nEMEA

Docker is a remote first company with employees across Europe, APAC and the Americas that simplifies the lives of developers who are making world-changing apps.  We raised our Series C funding in March 2022 for $105M at a $2.1B valuation. We continued to see exponential revenue growth last year.  Join us for a whale of a ride!The Billing team ensures painless purchasing, reliable billing, proper user entitling, and robust payment reporting within Docker's products. As a Backend Engineer, you will propose, prototype, and eventually publish tools and features to solve problems, such as:* How can we rapidly roll out billing and subscriptions for new products and services?\n* How can we build a robust billing backend that will enhance the payment process?\n* What can we do to streamline internal and external business operations?\n\nYou will collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to design user journeys and API specifications, using tools like Slack, Zoom, Miro, and Notion. You will also work across departments on this team, interfacing with Business Operations, Data, Finance, Marketing, and Support more than our average team. You will be constantly seeking ways to improve development practices to ensure we maintain a high level of quality with a fast pace of delivery. You will help foster an optimistic and uplifting environment with collaboration and innovation. Finally, you should be passionate about how developers' lives could be made easier, and about Docker's role in that.Responsibilities:* Build and improve on a billing system managing tens of thousands of subscriptions, and processing thousands of daily transactions\n* Lead and contribute to new features that enhance our users’ billing and payments experience in Docker Hub and other new Docker products\n* Write project proposals, document standard operating procedures, and evaluate 3rd party tools\n* Write, review, maintain, and document Golang code, including unit, integration, and e2e tests\n* Mentor, coach, and pair with team members on software engineering best practices\n* Work within a cross-functional delivery team of 5+ software engineers, with an embedded product manager and designer\n* Deploy code to production, and own the product throughout the lifecycle\n* Demonstrate cross-team collaboration and own the team’s engineering needs\n* Respond to daytime internal billing support requests, on rotation (avg. 12/week), from throughout the company\n* Participate in paid 12-hour daytime on-call shifts for one week every 2-6 months\n\nQualifications:* Experience in senior and leadership roles, capable of taking initiative, supporting more junior engineers, and leading by example with an optimistic outlook\n* Experience and interest in user checkout experiences, payment processing, invoicing, recurring subscriptions, and/or business operations\n* Experience with payment and billing platforms (Stripe preferred)\n* Experience with debugging and related tools, test automation, troubleshooting, and understanding code of myriad authors\n* 5+ years experience building SaaS applications\n* 3+ years with a C-based backend language, preferably Golang\n* Experience with* SQL (Postgres preferred)\n* Cloud platforms (AWS preferred, or GCP, Azure)\n* IaC (Terraform preferred)\n* Containers (Docker, Kubernetes)\n* CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)\n* Snowflake (nice-to-have)\n* Python, data ingestion (ETL), and data pipelines (nice-to-have)\n* Salesforce and APEX (nice-to-have)\n\n\n* Knowledge of security and compliance best practices (PCI, SOC2, SOX)\n* Strong verbal and written English skills with a record of documenting SOPs and project proposals\n* Ability and interest in working at a fully remote company crossing international time zones\n* Past demonstrations of proactively working outside of this job description\n\nWhat to expect in your first 30 days:Being a fully remote workplace, Docker has a focus on keeping teams connected. To that end, your first two weeks will include a calendar with many 1:1 sessions intended to introduce you to your team and others with whom you will interact frequently. Expect to spend time on other onboarding activities like IT setup, navigating productivity tools, and getting familiar with your regular calendar cadence.As part of your hands-on onboarding, you’ll have completed your first tasks contributing to the code base, getting familiar with the team’s Agile/Scrum processes and software development life cycle.By the end of the month, you should be familiar with Docker’s values and goals, our leadership, your team, your tools, and where to go for information - everything you need to build an understanding of Docker Hub, Billing systems and infrastructure, and making your own impact to our systems.What to expect in your first 90 days:In your first three months you’ll have developed a good relationship with your team and have become familiar with its routines. You will be comfortable sharing ideas and opinions formed from your depth of experience in daily standups, weekly planning, and ad-hoc engineering discussions.Expect to be familiar with the team’s roadmap and working directly with our project manager, planning ahead (e.g. through written proposals) and breaking down work on which the team will execute. Throughout bi-weekly sprints you’ll be making regular contributions to our Golang codebase and REST APIs, interacting with a PostgreSQL database and third party APIs like Stripe.You’ll have become familiar with Docker Hub systems and infrastructure with a focus on backend services, frontend components, and external integrations owned by the Billing team. You will be gaining comfort completing Jira tickets and pull requests (as both committer and reviewer) on Github and deploying to production using GitHub Actions as our CI/CD system.What to expect in your first year:Within your first year you’ll have made significant contributions to team velocity through your work as an individual contributor, but also by creating impact through the skill and wisdom you impart on the team through mentorship, insight, and off-the-Jira-board contributions (architecture & design, process improvements, etc.)You’ll have played a substantial role in the planning and execution of new tooling and internal system updates to facilitate pricing and packaging agility, usage-based billing, and billing support for new products contributing directly to Docker’s bottom line and long term ARR goals.Working through Slack, Zoom, Notion, and Jira, you’ll have established strong relationships with our stakeholders in Business Operations, Accounting, Finance, and Support, comfortable handling and prioritizing ad-hoc requests and discussing your team’s involvement.In collaboration with your manager, you will have a Career Development Plan that will outline your trajectory beyond your first year.Perks:* Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life\n* Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work\n* 16 weeks of paid Parental leave\n* Technology stipend equivalent to $100 net/month\n* PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy\n* Quarterly, company-wide hackathons\n* Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes\n* Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company\n* Docker Swag\n* Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country\n\nDocker embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our company will be.Due to the remote nature of this role, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship.#LI-REMOTE \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Docker, Design, SaaS, API, Senior, Golang, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $52,500 — $105,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\n\n\nWe're looking for experienced, super ambitious, product-minded folks to join our rapidly growing engineering team.\nWe are remote-first\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur main office is located in Richmond, VA, but the majority of our engineers are distributed. This particular role needs to be able to work on east-coast time!\nOur tech + how we work\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur core backend is built with Go, but we are constantly exploring tech that best fits the needs of our customers and engineers.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe believe in using the best tools for the job, and value engineering expertise over language prowess.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe value: documentation, test coverage, documentation, code review, documentation, CI/CD and documentation.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe predominantly communicate over Slack, making little use of email internally. We do daily standups each morning via Google Hangouts. Github is our repo tool of choice and we track progress and requirements via Jira.\nYou should apply if...\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou're passionate about building beautifully crafted software and creating awesome developer experiences.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou want to build a product you would use yourself, and bring your unique insight and perspective to the table as an engineer in shaping our overarching product offering.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou like solving big problems. Our greatest challenges are on the horizon, and we'll need experienced, intelligent, hard-working and creative minds to solve foundational infrastructure challenges to further establish Hatch as the leading B2C messaging platform.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou value collaboration, autonomy, moving fast and getting lots done. We have no time or interest for bureaucracy and micromanagement — we're moving fast and you'll be required to take responsibility for delivering end to end to product.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou want to make a huge impact, and share in the success of a company you've helped build.\nYou may be a fit for this role if you\n\n\n* Have a strong technical background, including 8+ years of experience building impactful products or systems\n\n* Have 2+ years of expert-level Go experience\n\n* Have incredible communication skills and are a joy to work with\n\n* Enjoy doing anything it takes to solve problems and see projects through to completion\n\n* Take pride in designing, building, and maintaining APIs, services, and systems at scale\n\n* Find improving engineering standards, tooling, and processes rewarding\n\n* Uphold best practices in engineering, security and design\n\n* Hold yourself and others to a high level of accountability when working with production\n\n* Can effectively debug complex problems across the whole stack\n\n* Enjoy doing whatever it takes to solve problems and delight users\n\n* Have experience with AWS\n\n* Have experience with real-time web - WebSockets / WebRTC\n\n* Have experience with CI/CD\n\n\n\nWhat you will do\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThrive in a collaborative environment developing and executing against immediate and long term roadmaps and making effective tradeoffs considering business priorities, but always with the user experience in mind\nWrite high quality, performant code that sees tons of exposure and user feedback in a growing, fast-pace, startup environment\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdvise Hatch’s leadership team on key technical considerations related to the future of our technology stack and product roadmap\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTeach and mentor junior ICs to become the next generation of top-tier engineers at Hatch\nInform critical decisions with consideration for software best practices, Hatch’s system design, and product roadmap\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScrutinize and reason clearly about the technology and architecture choices we make in building platforms or products/services at Hatch\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nServe as a role model for software design and scalable systems architecture by developing, sharing, and setting the bar for engineering quality\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Golang, Engineer, Backend and Junior jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\n / Remote