Senior Platform Engineer, Operator

About Ditto: Ditto is redefining how data moves at the edge. Our mission is to make it seamless for developers to build resilient, real-time applications, regardless of network conditions. Whether you're in a stadium, airplane, or remote military base, Ditto's peer-to-peer sync engine ensures devices stay connected and data stays consistent, even without internet. With more than $145 million in funding and trusted by organizations like Chick-fil-A, Delta Airlines, and the U.S. military, Ditto powers mission-critical experiences across aviation, retail, travel, hospitality, defense, and more. As a globally distributed, fast-growing startup, we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team that reflects the wide range of perspectives needed to solve the world’s hardest connectivity problems. WHAT YOU'LL BE UP TO… - Own the architecture and evolution of the SMBP Operator's CRD API surface, designing extensions that meet enterprise expectations — consistent status conditions, configurable security contexts, fine-grained network configuration, and admission validation that surfaces bad configs at apply time rather than deep in the reconciliation loop. - Design and implement flexible network configuration patterns that give customers choice of ingress controller, load balancer, and traffic management approach — without prescribing specific Kubernetes ecosystem components or hardcoding controller-specific behaviour. - Build the observability integration enterprise customers expect: Prometheus-native metrics, ServiceMonitor CRDs for automatic scraping, Kubernetes Events emission throughout the reconciliation lifecycle, and pre-built dashboards that surface operator and cluster health without manual instrumentation. - Harden the operator's security posture across pod security contexts, network policies, supply chain integrity (image signing, SBOM), and the configuration surfaces that every enterprise security team will audit before approving a production deployment.