• Contributing to the machine controller manager to manage the machines/nodes of the cluster across different cloud providers. • Etcd as the central store for Gardener objects with the first-class backup and restore capabilities. • Control plane engineering endeavors to achieve highly scalable clusters running at the most optimal operating costs. • Prior experience in design, deployment, and running of cloud infrastructures at Scale supporting PAAS/SAAS solutions. • Strong experience with Unix/Linux internals and prior work in building virtualized/containerized environments. • Hands-on experience in one or more (cloud) infrastructure services and technologies, e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, VMWare, OpenShift. • Excellent understanding of cloud-native development, cloud computing, distributed systems, and container orchestration technology such as Kubernetes. • Exposure to building necessary automation at all levels of the product lifecycle • Excellent knowledge in at least one scripting and one programming language (Go Lang preferred)