Senior Engineer (Golang/Kubernetes)

Senior Engineer (Golang/Kubernetes)

At Arango, we believe the first generation of enterprise AI missed something essential: context. LLM models are powerful, but they don't understand the context needed to deliver accurate answers.

Arango provides a trusted data foundation for the next wave of Enterprise AI with graph-based Contextual AI — transforming enterprise data into a System of Context that truly represents the business, so LLMs can deliver better outcomes with unlimited scale and cost efficiency.

The Arango AI Data Platform gives developers a single, integrated environment to build and scale AI-powered applications without the complexity of stitching together multiple databases and tools. At its core is a massively scalable multi-model database that unifies graph, vector, document, and key-value data with full-text, geospatial, and vector search — creating the System of Context, the bridge between enterprise data and LLMs.

We’re a global team based in California and Cologne, united by curiosity, collaboration, and a passion for helping developers, data engineers, and technology leaders innovate faster and smarter with AI. Trusted by NVIDIA, HPE, the London Stock Exchange, the U.S. Air Force, NIH, and Articul8, Arango powers enterprise AI with context, confidence, and scale. We are a proud member of the NVIDIA Inception Program and the AWS ISV Accelerate Program. 

If you’re excited about shaping the future of Contextual AI, come build with us.

Location: Only candidates in the USA with U.S. Citizenship will be considered for the role.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Engineer to lead development of the ArangoDB operator, responsible for ensuring robust lifecycle management, scaling, back-up, and replication capabilities for ArangoDB running on Kubernetes. You will shape the architecture of core operator components, design and implement new features, influence best practices for deploying stateful systems on Kubernetes, and ensure that ArangoDB continues to meet enterprise-grade expectations for performance, consistency, and stability. This is an opportunity to own a critical part of our ecosystem and directly impact how modern AI-driven applications run in production.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of the ArangoDB Kubernetes Operator.
• Own core operator architecture and implement features for lifecycle management, scaling, backup, and replication.
• Ensure high availability, performance, and stability of ArangoDB on Kubernetes.
• Define best practices for running stateful systems on Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to align operator capabilities with enterprise and cloud requirements.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across Kubernetes and distributed systems.
• This role supports a U.S. Air Force project and requires U.S. citizenship. 

Key Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, CRDs and operators (deployments, custom resources like ArangoDeployment, ArangoBackup, ArangoLocalStorage, replication, etc.)  
• Strong experience in Go (the operator is written in Go) plus solid understanding of concurrency, storage, and distributed system concerns.  
• Proven background in designing and managing production-grade distributed databases or stateful systems, including storage management and data replication. (e.g., persistent volumes, snapshot/backup, failover, cluster scaling)  
• Familiarity with storage concepts in Kubernetes: PersistentVolumes, PVCs, local storage, volume resizing, storage performance tuning.  
• Operational mindset: ability to ensure stability, handle upgrades/migrations, observability/metrics, and manage cluster lifecycle through automation and best practices.  
• Strong communication and leadership skills: able to drive technical discussions, review code, mentor contributors, write clear design documents and documentation for both internal and external users.
• U.S. citizenship is required. 
• Active security clearance is preferred.

Why Join Us

You have the chance to play a key role in building the next great enterprise data and AI company! You'll be selling our category-defining technology, already trusted by innovative global brands, while partnering closely with an elite team of Sales, Product, and Engineering leaders. If you thrive in a culture that prizes excellence, autonomy, and accountability, you'll fit right in. We back up that culture with a competitive compensation plan that includes uncapped variable earnings and meaningful career growth opportunities.

Our headquarters is in San Francisco (US) and we have an office in Cologne (Germany), but most of our diverse team works remotely worldwide. So, do you prefer your desk at home or do you want to join us at one of our locations? Your choice.

The global minds of Arango come from 5 different continents and more than 20 countries. Diverse backgrounds enable us to see new solutions. We invite people from every culture, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and of every age to apply to our positions. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications. Arango is committed to a workplace free of discrimination and harassment based on any of these characteristics. We love this diversity and encourage everyone curious and visionary to join the multi-model movement.