Software Engineer, Control Plane

About the Role

Conduit's Control Plane team owns the coordination layer of the Conduit Platform: the services that provision, update, and retire everything customers run on us — rollups, RPC nodes, indexing, and whatever comes next — meter what those products consume, and give both customers and our own team a trustworthy picture of what is actually running.

The core of it is a control loop. We're building a lifecycle service that observes what's actually running and reconciles toward the desired state, rather than writing a status field and hoping it stays true. It treats each product as opaque: its shape and configuration come from schema read at runtime, so onboarding a new product type is a description, not a pull request.

If you've worked on Kubernetes controllers, provisioning APIs, deployment systems, or any platform where the hard part is keeping many systems consistent with one another, this will feel familiar. It's a web2 stack in service of web3 technology — we don't require blockchain experience, and people on the team picked up the domain here.

Three things worth knowing up front:

• A small, senior team with a large charter. Control Plane is small and entirely senior — this layer is critical enough that everyone on it operates independently. The surface area — lifecycle, usage reporting, the customer-facing API, internal tooling — is wider than the team can build at once, which is why we spent this year defining what it owns and what it doesn't. The upside is unusual influence: your design decisions become the architecture rather than one input among many.

• The mission is automation. Plenty of platform operations still have a human in the loop. Turning those into automated, self-serve paths is the work — and because the first users of what you build are inside the company, the feedback loop is measured in hours, not quarters.