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Vailexa

Senior Staff Engineer

Plano, Texas, United States (Remote)

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Role family
Engineering
Seniority
Lead / management
Country
US
Work mode
Remote-friendly
First seen by hirly
3 Oct 2026

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the posting

Build More Than Just a Career. Build Your Future.

At Vailexa, we’re not just hiring — we’re building thinkers, creators, and future leaders.

We believe in giving people the space to grow, the freedom to think, and the opportunity to create real impact from day one. If you’re someone who wants to learn fast, take ownership, and grow beyond limits, you’ll feel right at home here.

Targeting candidates with experience at cloud-native, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused companies such as Datadog, Cloudflare, Core Weave, Digital Ocean, Cloudera, CircleCI, Elastic, Dynatrace, or similar organizations where Kubernetes is used at scale in production environments. No targeting candidates whose Kubernetes experience is limited to UI tools, basic cluster ops, or non-engineering functions.

A Typical Day:

Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.

Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.

Deliver enhancements that drive the cost efficiency of our cloud platform.

Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.

Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.

Contribute to the multi-year strategy to evolve client’s Cloud Platform

Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance the compute platform.

Your Expertise:

BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience

12+ years of relevant work experience in infrastructure

4+ years of expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. EC2).

Experience setting technical direction, planning, and successfully executing on large projects spanning multiple teams

Kubernetes Experience is required.

Istio/Envoy Experience is preferred.

Ready to take the next step?

If you’re excited about this role and ready to grow with a team that values ambition, ideas, and impact — we’d love to hear from you.

👉 Apply now and start building your journey with Vailexa.

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