Staff / Principal Software Engineer – Cloud Platform & SaaS
SingleStore·United States·Posted 27 October 2026
About the role
We are looking for a high-impact Staff or Principal Software Engineer to drive the architecture, reliability, and scaling of our managed cloud offering, SingleStore Helios . In this role, you will lead the evolution of our multi-cloud SaaS control and data planes, manage high-density Kubernetes deployments across major hyperscalers, and partner directly with our AI Platform initiatives. As a senior technical leader, you will balance greenfield architecture with hands-on systems programming and operational resilience. You will also allocate approximately 10–20% of your bandwidth toward high-priority Tier-3 operational escalations, identifying root causes in production distributed systems to inform durable platform architecture. What You’ll Do Architect Distributed SaaS Infrastructure: Design, implement, and scale multi-tenant Kubernetes operators, custom controllers, and orchestration workflows managing thousands of customer database clusters globally. Write Resilient Systems Code: Develop performant, fault-tolerant backend services and control planes using modern Go language & Python. Lead Cloud Networking Design: Own cross-cloud networking topology, ingress/egress controls,…
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