Senior Software Engineer, Cluster & Lifecycle (EMEA)

About this role

Qdrant is an open-source vector search engine powering the next generation of AI applications, from semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to AI agents and real-time recommendations.

Trusted by global leaders like Canva, HubSpot, Tripadvisor, Bosch, and Deutsche Telekom, we’re building the retrieval infrastructure layer for modern AI. Recently raising $50M in Series B funding, we are growing rapidly and committed to transforming how AI understands and interacts with data.

As a remote-first company, we believe diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences fuel innovation. Here, you’ll own meaningful work, tackle challenges, and grow alongside passionate individuals dedicated to shaping the future of AI.

## The Team and Your Impact

Qdrant Cloud is growing fast, and most of the new product features on our 2027 roadmap land with this team. That means a lot of new work: cross-region replication, disaster recovery and new ways to manage clusters.

This role is for engineers who like hard distributed systems problems, write Go every day, and want their code to manage real customer databases in production.

## What You Will Own

• Design and build features in our Kubernetes operator and control-plane services, in Go.
• Own the full cluster lifecycle: provisioning, scaling, upgrades, configuration changes, backups and restores.
• Design APIs and integrations that let people, and more and more AI agents, manage Qdrant Cloud.
• Close the feature gaps between Hybrid Cloud and our managed cloud, and extend Private Cloud.
• Make cluster operations safe by default: controlled rollouts, minimal disruption to customers and clear failure handling.
• Take part in on-call for the services you build, including incident response and root cause analysis.
• Work closely with other teams (Operations, Platform, and Billing & IAM teams, Product and Support).

## Who you are

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a good part of i...