Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BRK Tech, a Berkshire Hathaway Group Company, is seeking Senior, Staff & Principal Software Engineers across various domains. The roles focus on designing, building, and operating technology platforms to support large-scale systems across multiple industries.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate modern technology platforms that run at massive scale and support long‑term, real‑world impact
- Build and operate enterprise messaging platforms
- Operate and scale large distributed production systems
- Build and operate enterprise observability platforms
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience (4+ additional years)
- Typically 6–8+ years of relevant experience with strong hands‑on ownership for Senior Engineers
- Typically 10+ years with deep technical leadership and architecture ownership for Principal Engineers
- 6+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong proficiency in at least one major language (Java, Go, Python, C#, or similar)
- Hands‑on experience building distributed systems and platform services
- Backend and platform development: microservices, APIs, service‑to‑service integrations
- Messaging and event‑driven systems: Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar
- Data platforms: SQL, NoSQL, Graph databases, caching systems
- CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and modern DevOps practices
- Containers, Kubernetes, and/or serverless runtimes
- Familiarity with observability stacks (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting)
- Hands‑on experience with Ceph‑based SDS (object, block, file)
- Storage protocols: NVMe‑oF (TCP), S3, NFS, SMB/CIFS
- Designing and scaling high‑availability, multi‑tenant storage platforms
- Data resiliency and recovery models (N+2 / N+3, erasure coding, DR)
- Storage integration with Kubernetes, virtualization, and bare metal
- Strong Linux systems expertise
- Automation using Python, Go, Bash, C/C++
- Experience with OpenStack, Nutanix, VMware, KubeVirt
- Architecture of high‑performance storage fabrics
- Expertise in NVMe‑oF, RDMA, QoS
- Deep routing knowledge: BGP, OSPF
- Experience with Cisco, Palo Alto, NVIDIA/Mellanox
- Designing and validating N+2 / N+3 resilient architectures
- Linux networking and open‑source ecosystems
- Strong grounding in network security
- Performance tuning for distributed storage (Ceph/Swift) at scale
- Kubernetes and virtualization optimization (KubeVirt a plus)
- Advanced Linux tuning: kernel parameters, eBPF, I/O profiling
- High‑performance hardware & networking (PCIe Gen5, NVMe‑oF/TCP)
- NUMA, CPU pinning, cgroups, and resource isolation
- Quantitative modeling of latency and throughput
- Operating and scaling large distributed production systems
- Strong foundation in SRE principles
- Deep experience with Kubernetes, Linux internals, and automation
- Infrastructure tooling using Go, Python, or Java
- Observability across metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
- High‑availability and data resiliency architectures
- Leadership during high‑severity production incidents
- Ownership of platforms with 24/7 operational responsibility
- Building and operating enterprise messaging platforms
- Deep expertise with Kafka and/or RabbitMQ, including multi‑DC
- Messaging architecture: topic/queue design, durability, HA, scaling
- Event‑driven and integration‑heavy environments
- Kubernetes‑based platforms (on‑prem and/or cloud)
- API‑driven integrations and distributed systems fundamentals
- Strong production ownership mindset
- Building and operating enterprise observability platforms
- Strong open‑source background
- Expertise across logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and alerting
- Kubernetes telemetry pipelines and centralized ingestion
- Code‑level visibility into latency, errors, and service dependencies
- Alerting driven by SLOs, SLAs, and latency thresholds
- Public cloud exposure (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Company Overview
brk tech is a new kind of technology organization within Berkshire Hathaway—built to empower world-class enterprises with adoption of tech and artificial intelligence enabling each business to accelerate their digital transformation.. It was founded in 2026, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, US, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is .