Messaging Platform Engineer – Operations, Kubernetes & NATS

Messaging Platform Engineer – Operations, Kubernetes & NATS Join our journey! Feel the freedom, adventure, and excitement of driving innovation. You'll be part of a great team and make a real impact on future mobility by accelerating digital transformation We are looking for an experienced platform, DevOps, or operations engineer to help build and run the messaging capabilities of Drive, WirelessCar's Internal Developer Platform. This is a hands-on role for someone who has proven experience operating production systems and working with Kubernetes. You do not need to be a NATS expert on day one, but you should be excited to learn it deeply and apply your operational experience to an important platform capability. About WirelessCar WirelessCar empowers the future of mobility by connecting vehicles and delivering cutting-edge digital services. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Sweden, we have a strong global presence with offices in the U.S., China, Germany, India, and Japan, offering a truly global workplace with exciting opportunities for career growth. Owned by Volkswagen Group, today we connect over 17 million vehicles across 100+ countries and partner with leading OEMs, including Volvo, Jaguar Land Rover, Volkswagen Group, Nissan, and Subaru. About the Role Drive is WirelessCar's platform for turning ideas into running customer solutions. It gives development teams a consistent way to build, deploy, and operate software, while reducing the operational effort needed to get from an idea to production. Drive is built on open-source, cloud-native technology, with Kubernetes at its core. It brings together NATS for messaging, Argo CD and Kargo for GitOps delivery, OpenTelemetry for end-to-end observability, and Gateway API with Cilium Service Mesh for modern networking. WirelessCar is putting real trust in Drive as a central part of how we deliver value to customers. You will help evolve this modern, cutting-edge architecture while making sure it remains reliable, observable, and practical to operate. Messengers is a cross-functional platform engineering team focused on messaging and shaping the future of Drive. We work close to the developers who use the platform, influence architecture, and see our impact directly in production. The team thrives on collaboration, shared ownership, and continuous learning. We collaborate closely to align on goals and build shared understanding, working together or independently as the task requires. Your Impact As part of team Messengers, you will: Operate and scale NATS clusters: monitor, tune, troubleshoot, and improve production messaging infrastructure; take part in incident response and capacity planning Improve observability and operational excellence: build dashboards, alerts, metrics, logs, and traces that make the platform understandable and help teams diagnose messaging issues Improve reliability: identify failure modes, strengthen resilience, and continuously improve clustering topology and operational practices Create actionable documentation: provide clear examples, runnable code, and troubleshooting guides that help developers use and operate messaging safely Build developer tooling: create CLIs, APIs, or Kubernetes operators that let teams provision messaging resources through self-service tooling Work across boundaries: collaborate with developers, platform engineers, and architects to turn operational findings into practical platform improvements What We're Looking For We’re looking for an experienced engineer who can bring a strong level of expertise to the role, including: Proven production operations experience: you have operated live systems and have practical experience with monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, incident response, and post-mortems Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience: you can operate and troubleshoot workloads and deployments using tools such as kubectl, k9s, and Argo CD A systems mindset: you can reason from evidence about failures, performance degradation, network problems, and message-processing bottlenecks Clear communication: you explain technical issues clearly, share knowledge, and work constructively with people across different roles and levels of experience A collaborative and pragmatic personality: you enjoy solving problems with others, making trade-offs, and taking ownership from investigation through production The drive to learn NATS: you are interested in developing deep knowledge of clustering, JetStream, subject hierarchies, security models, and messaging patterns Experience with NATS or another messaging system is valuable, but strong operations and Kubernetes experience is the foundation for this role. Experience with comparable orchestration, deployment, or observability tools is relevant, but you should be comfortable learning and working hands-on with Kubernetes. It would be a plus if you have Hands-on experience designing and operating messaging systems or other high-throughput distributed systems Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry Experience with Helm charts and Kubernetes CRDs Experience writing Go, or an interest in learning high-quality, idiomatic Go Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD, Flux, or Kargo Experience building or contributing to open source (we maintain NAuth , a Kubernetes Operator that enables GitOps of NATS AuthN/Z configuration) An interest in or experience using AI agents for development If you want to write about your work or speak at conferences, we'll support you. Why WirelessCar? At WirelessCar, you’ll have the trust and freedom to take ownership, share ideas and make an impact. We value collaboration, curiosity and different perspectives, and believe people do their best work when they have room to grow. When you join WirelessCar, you can expect: Freedom to make an impact – Take ownership and help shape what we do. Collaboration across borders – Work with talented people and perspectives from around the world. Room to grow – Develop your skills, explore new areas and learn along the way. Space for ideas – Challenge the way we work and turn ideas into action. A supportive environment – We care about each other and create space to contribute, grow and do your best work. At WirelessCar, we want you to enjoy what you do, feel proud of what you contribute and have fun along the way. What We Offer Health & wellbeing – Wellness contribution and initiatives that support your health and wellbeing. Work-life balance – Generous holiday, additional time off through our working time reduction, and parental leave compensation. Financial benefits – Competitive pension and insurance benefits, bonus and profit-sharing opportunities. Technology & mobility – Flexible options for technology, as well as company car and bike leasing. A great everyday experience – Weekly breakfasts and opportunities to connect and spend time with colleagues. What to Expect We aim to make our recruitment process clear and transparent, giving you a clear understanding of what to expect at each stage. 1. Initial screening A first conversation with Talent Acquisition about your experience and motivation. 2. Assessment & interview Depending on the role, you may complete an assessment and meet with the Hiring Manager or relevant team members. 3. Role-specific interviews Further conversations to explore your skills and experience in more depth. 4. Final steps References and, where required, background checks before moving forward with an offer. 5. Offer If we both feel it’s the right match, we’ll discuss the final details and make you an offer. The exact process may vary depending on the role and location. Ready to join the ride? Sound interesting? We’d love to hear from you! No cover letter needed – just a few questions to help us better understand your experience, skills and motivation. Please submit your application in English, our company language. A valid work permit is required. Not quite the right role for you? No worries! Connect with us to join our talent community and stay in the loop about future opportunities at WirelessCar. Follow us on LinkedIn to keep up with our latest news, people and opportunities. Department Connected Services Role Platform Engineer Locations Gothenburg Head Office Remote status Hybrid Employment type Full-time Last application day 20 September, 2026 Gothenburg Head Office Traveling with us WirelessCar is always on the move, often into the uncharted. We are curious, believe in collaboration, and are always open to new ideas on how we can make a difference. When you join our journey, you will be part of a great crew of highly competent and warmhearted people from all over the world. You will get the freedom to lead your own work and inspire others, to move into new technologies, to move around in the organization, and to work where you prefer, whether it is at the office, remote, or both. Both internally and externally empowering smart, sustainable movement is our quest on our way to the destination. About WirelessCar The future of automotive digital services Safe, smart, and sustainable—that is the future of mobility. We develop and operate connected vehicle services and cloud-based API products that offer you a smarter way to get there. Founded in 1999 Co-workers Around 750+