Senior Software Engineer - DevOps/SRE

Why project44?     At project44, we believe in better.     We challenge the status quo because we know a better supply chain isn’t just possible—it’s essential. Better for our customers. Better for their business. Better for the world.    With our Decision Intelligence Platform, Movement , we’re redefining how global supply chains operate. By transforming fragmented logistics data into real-time, AI-powered insights, we empower companies to connect instantly, see clearly, act decisively, and automate intelligently. Our Supply Chain AI enhances visibility, drives smarter execution, and unlocks next-gen applications that keep businesses moving forward.    Headquartered in Chicago, IL with a 2nd HQ in Bengaluru, India we are powered by a diverse global team that is tackling the toughest logistics challenges with innovation, urgency, and purpose.    AI at project44 We expect every project44 team member, regardless of role or function, to actively leverage AI in their day-to-day work. Whether you're building product, serving customers, managing people, or running operations, AI is a tool you're expected to use with intent, curiosity, and judgment. We don't expect everyone to be a data scientist. We do expect everyone to be an intelligent user of AI: able to identify where it adds value, direct it effectively, evaluate outputs critically, and govern it responsibly. We invest in our team's AI fluency because we believe it's a competitive advantage for every person at project44, not just our engineers If you’re driven to solve meaningful problems, leverage AI to scale rapidly, drive impact daily, and be part of a high-performance team – we should talk.   The Role   project44 is looking for a Senior  DevOps/SRE/Platform  Engineer to join our  Foundations Engineering  team. You will work in a fast-paced Agile environment designing, building, and  operating  the foundational systems that power project44's global  logistics  network—ensuring our platform is reliable, observable, cost-efficient, and built to scale. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and developer enablement.   Key Accountabilities: What you'll work on   Design, build, and operate core infrastructure across our primary GCP environment and secondary AWS footprint, leveraging managed services to deliver scalable, reliable, and cost-effective solutions   Own and evolve our Kubernetes (GKE) platform—cluster lifecycle management, node pool strategy, networking, RBAC, and workload reliability—ensuring developer teams can ship safely and quickly   Build and maintain Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code across cloud environments, enforcing standards for modularity, state management, and repeatable, auditable provisioning   Manage and improve our Kafka and Strimzi streaming infrastructure, supporting high-throughput event pipelines that are foundational to project44's real-time data capabilities   Lead and execute cost optimization initiatives—rightsizing compute, improving resource utilization, reducing waste, and creating visibility and accountability for cloud spend across engineering teams   Champion observability and reliability practices — SLOs/SLIs, incident response, on-call processes, and postmortems — to reduce MTTR and prevent recurrence.   Partner with application engineering teams to define and implement platform standards for deployment, scaling, service mesh, secrets management, and infrastructure security   Participate in a team on-call rotation, debugging and resolving infrastructure and platform incidents with urgency and rigor   Contribute to technical design discussions, architecture reviews, and documentation—helping set a high bar for quality, reliability, and operational excellence across the engineering organization   Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance   Evaluate and introduce new tools, platforms, and automation to continuously modernize the infrastructure stack.   Drive cost-optimization initiatives across cloud spend without compromising reliability or performance.     Qualities   Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain infrastructure decisions through design docs, postmortems, and cross-functional discussions, and collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical partners   A strong analytical approach to problem-solving, with comfort navigating ambiguity and making tradeoffs explicit—especially across reliability, velocity, and cost   A sense of ownership, curiosity, and resilience—comfortable voicing ideas, incorporating feedback, and iterating toward better solutions   A platform-minded builder who thinks about the engineers and systems they enable, not just the infrastructure they manage     Qualifications   5+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, DevOps, or a closely related role   Strong experience in:   Kubernetes administration and operations at scale (GKE strongly preferred), including cluster networking, autoscaling, workload isolation, and upgrade management   Kafka operations and architecture, including topic design, consumer group management, broker configuration, and integration with streaming workloads (Strimzi experience a plus)   Infrastructure-as-code using Terraform—module design, state management, CI-driven plan/apply workflows, and drift detection   Google Cloud Platform (GCP) across core services: GKE, GCS, Cloud NAT, VPC networking, IAM, Artifact Registry, and related managed services   Cloud observability tooling and practices—building meaningful dashboards, alerts, SLI/SLO frameworks, and runbooks regardless of the tool stack   Cloud networking fundamentals: VPCs, subnetting, private connectivity, DNS, load balancing, and security group/firewall design   Cloud cost