Software Developer IV (Golang & Kubernetes)

About the opportunity At Rackspace Technology we deliver outcome-based cloud solutions that help customers modernise applications, launch new products, and run complex cloud environments. RackAI is our strategic platform for bringing secure, scalable, cloud-native AI capabilities to customers and internal teams alike. We're looking for an expert Software Developer IV to join the PVC Product Software Engineering team and help design and evolve the core of RackAI. You'll pair deep Go and Kubernetes expertise with genuine architectural leadership — and you'll help set the standard for how a modern engineering team builds software in the age of AI. It's a hands-on senior role: strategic enough to shape direction, close enough to the code to lead by example. Put simply: we build AI, and we build with AI. If you want to work at the intersection of cloud-native platform engineering and applied AI — and help define an AI-first engineering culture — this is the seat. Why RackAI You'll help shape the future of AI-powered products at Rackspace Technology — building with modern cloud-native technology, solving hard problems at scale, and setting the standard for how engineering teams work in an AI-first world. What you'll do Architect and build the RackAI platform Design and develop highly scalable backend services in Go (Golang) . Build Kubernetes-native applications — operators, controllers, and platform services — using controller-runtime and kubebuilder. Define and evolve the RackAI platform architecture for growth, reliability, security, and operational excellence. Develop the APIs, automation frameworks, and platform capabilities that power AI-enabled products. Champion cloud-native best practices: observability, resiliency, and operational readiness. Lead an AI-first engineering culture Make AI-assisted engineering the default way of working — champion an AI-driven, AI-first approach across the team. Embed AI development tooling — Claude Code , Kiro , Codex , or GitHub C