Staff Engineer
Pubblicato il 03-10-2026 - Jobgether in Italia
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Engineer (Core & MLOps) based in Italy.
This role offers the opportunity to shape foundational infrastructure powering large-scale web data products and distributed engineering teams. You’ll own the architecture of core control and context planes that enable services and AI-driven workflows to operate reliably and efficiently. Working across Kubernetes, Kafka, Java, Python, gRPC, and multi-cloud infrastructure, you’ll tackle complex distributed systems challenges at production scale. You’ll establish engineering standards, reliability practices, and service contracts that influence multiple product squads. The role combines hands-on architecture with technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional alignment. In a globally distributed, remote-first environment, you’ll have significant autonomy to solve challenging infrastructure problems and influence long-term platform strategy.
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Accountabilities:
• Architect and evolve the control and context planes, advancing service and schema registries, SLO enforcement, health-aware routing, automated canary releases, and operational feedback loops.
• Own the service chassis and golden path, maintaining and improving multi-language Java and Python client libraries, standardized workload specifications, Helm charts, and deployment pipelines.
• Define and govern inter-service contracts, including gRPC and Protocol Buffer definitions, API gateway transcoding, versioning policies, and schema evolution standards.
• Operate and improve the core platform infrastructure across Kubernetes, Terraform, HAProxy/Nginx, Confluent Kafka, real-time billing pipelines, Valkey, and database modernization initiatives.
• Lead architectural strategy through Requests for Discussion (RFDs) covering workflow orchestration, gateway orchestration, multi-cluster routing, automated failover, and other criti