Cloud-native Golang Engineer

**About Loft Labs**:
We are a venture-backed tech startup in hyper growth phase. Our headquarters are in San Francisco (Salesforce Tower) but our team is distributed across 8 timezones and we have a remote-first work culture similar to GitLab, Zapier or Stripe.

We are generating revenue and growing extremely fast with a customer base that includes some of the biggest companies in the world (car manufacturers, Fortune 100 financial institutions) and some of the fastest growing tech unicorns.

**Working on developer tools and open-source technology is part of our DNA.** We are the maintainers of several popular open-source projects in the Kubernetes space:
Our technology is used by companies such as Adobe, VMware, Gusto, Outreach, Codefresh, and many others.

**Responsibilities**:
We are looking for an **experienced Golang engineer with solid Kubernetes experience** to join our team to build open-source developer tooling in the cloud-native space. In this position, you will:

- **Design and build new features** for our open-source projects and for our commercial product
- **Contribute to our roadmap discussions **and suggest features and changes, along and for our amazing OS community
- **Take over responsibility** for everything you are working on - from talking to a customer, taking on an issue, over planning the implementation, writing the code, adding the tests to actually shipping the feature as part of our release workflow
- **Drive really deep into the inner workings of Kubernetes** (controllers, CRDs, extension API servers, etc.) and work with some of the best Kubernetes engineers around
- **Write Golang code** that is easy-to-test, performant, bug-free (no worries, we know that that's an illusion), and well-structured
- **Contribute to docs and tests** for all projects you are working on to ensure we ship high-quality code for our enterprise customers and open-source community users
- Optionally: Meet us at KubeCon or write blog posts about your work to make your voice heard

**Requirements**:

- **Hands-on experience with Kubernetes** and containers in general
- **4+ years of professional programming experience**
- **Deep conceptual and architectural understanding** of microservices, containers and complex distributed systems
- **A passion for cloud-native ecosystem,** for example: CNCF projects, cloud-native developer tools, container build systems, and Kubernetes platforms
- **A team player mindset** that drives you towards open communication(English). That will help you and your colleagues to stay connected and keep everyone in the loop while being remote
- **A special interest for building developer tooling and automation** that will drive you to constantly improve and extend our tool suite for the benefit of our users and customers
- **An appetite for sharing your code, findings and learnings** **publicly** with our community users(we're largely open-source, remember?)

**Benefits**:
We offer the following benefits:

- **Competitive Salary**: We tend to pay higher wages than other startups.
- **Platinum-Level Insurance**: Health, dental, vision, and life Insurance including plans for you and eligible dependents (benefits vary depending on country)
- **Flexible Working Schedule**:You have a doctor's appointment or need to head to the supermarket to get groceries at 2pm? We won't have an issue with that. To us, results matter more than clocking in and out at the same time every day.
- **Workplace Flexibility**:If you want to work from home, that's great If you'd prefer to work in a coworking space, we can make that happen as well. If you want to relocate to our HQ in San Francisco, let's discuss that. We're flexible on all of this and we know things can change in life and we're happy to adjust the work environment for you along the way.

**Why join a startup like Loft Labs?**:
Since we are a fast-moving startup, you will not be number 14,589 in our company but rather become an essential part of our team right from the start:

- **Fast Application Process**:We will typically get back to you within a week. No need to polish your resume for us. Just send us some links (e.g. LinkedIn, etc.), answer a few questions about your previous experiences, and hop on a quick Zoom call with one of our team members to see if you're a good fit. We will respond quickly and make hiring decisions within days rather than months.
- **Open-Minded Work Environment**: You can always speak your mind - no company politics or unnecessary formalities. We are operating in a lean, honest, and efficient way and we are looking for different perspectives, constructive feedback and creative, motivated people who want to make a difference.
- **Grow With The Company**: We are a small company right now but we are growing incredibly fast because we work on something that has a lot of value to engineering teams in large enterprises. Joining Loft Labs early will give you the chance to advance much faster to the next step on the career