Senior Software Engineer (Control Plane + Orchestration) - Remote - Latin America

About FullStack

FullStack is the most transparent IT talent network, connecting highly skilled individuals with top global companies and Silicon Valley startups for remote, on-demand projects. We focus on building a trusted, high-performance network where talent can thrive in a positive, respectful, and supportive environment. By prioritizing transparency, fair opportunities, and professional growth, we empower our engineers to deliver their best work while collaborating with innovative teams worldwide.

We’re Most Proud Of

• Offering life-changing opportunities for talented software professionals across the Americas.
• Enhancing highly-skilled software development teams of hundreds of the world’s greatest companies.
• Our 4.2-star rating on GlassDoor.
• Our client Net Promoter Score of 68, twice the industry average.

The Opportunity

Join our talent network and connect with U.S. clients for flexible, project-based development work as a Senior Software Engineer.

• You will integrate directly into our client's team and work alongside their existing designers and engineers on a daily basis.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of professional software engineer, control plane & orchestration experience.
• Advanced English is required.
• Successful completion of a four-year college degree is required.
• Demonstrated experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven experience developing platform APIs that are consumed by multiple internal or external engineering teams.
• Strong experience designing RESTful APIs with emphasis on reliability, consistency, idempotency, and versioning.
• Demonstrated experience building event-driven or message-driven architectures.
• Strong understanding of asynchronous workflows, orchestration patterns, and distributed coordination.
• Proven experience designing highly available backend services.
• Strong expertise with Kubernetes, including Operators, Controllers, and Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs).
• Demonstrated experience managing multi-tenant Kubernetes environments.
• Experience deploying and operating cloud-native applications in production.
• Proven experience designing storage solutions utilizing object, file, block, or container storage.
• Strong understanding of distributed system consistency models, fault tolerance, and failure recovery.
• Practical experience implementing observability using metrics, logging, tracing, and monitoring solutions.
• Experience collaborating closely with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams.
• Hands-on experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions.
• Solid background working with GitOps deployment methodologies.
• Deep experience working with air-gapped or highly regulated Kubernetes environments.
• Hands-on experience building orchestration platforms for distributed infrastructure.
• Solid understanding of networking infrastructure, service meshes, or proxy architectures.
• Familiarity with multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments.
• Experience building internal developer platforms or platform engineering solutions.
• Knowledge of cloud-native storage technologies.
• Ability to work through new and difficult issues and contribute to libraries as needed.
• Ability to create and maintain continuous integration and delivery of applications.
• Forensic attention to detail.
• A positive mindset and a can-do attitude.
• Experience working on Agile / Scrum teams.
• Meaningful experience working on large, complex systems.
• Ability to take extreme ownership over your work. Every day is a challenge to ensure you are performing to the expectations you and your team have agreed upon.
• Ability to identify with the goals of FullStack's clients, and dedicate yourself to delivering on the commitments you and your team make to them.

Nice To Have

We’re Seeking Engineers Who Are AI-enthusiastic In Their Workflow. Professional Experience Or Personal Project Work With The Following Is a Significant Plus

• Cursor, Windsurf, or Google Antigravity.
• Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, or Copilot CLI.

What We Offer

• Competitive pay.
• 100% remote work.
• The ability to work with leading startups and Fortune 500 companies.
• Continuing education opportunities.
• Opportunity to grow and expand your career.

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