
Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)
Clera · San Francisco · Onsite
- Internet & E-commerce
- 11–50 employees
- San Francisco
Mixed hiring record · median 4 days open
Hiring signal
Actively hiring
Posted yesterday · still listed on the employer's own board · How we score
All reasons
- This role has been posted 5 times
- 34% of this employer's openings are over 60 days old
In its favour
- Posted yesterday
- Still listed on the employer's own board
- Publishes a salary range
About the Role
Join an early-stage cloud infrastructure team building tools that simplify production Kubernetes and multi-cluster operations, including demanding AI workloads. You will help shape the platform and its architecture while making complex infrastructure easier for developers to operate.
What You'll Do
- Build platform features in Go, including custom Kubernetes operators and controllers.
- Design GitOps workflows with ArgoCD to streamline continuous deployment.
- Develop infrastructure-as-code patterns with Terraform and Helm to provision and manage clusters.
- Work with distributed storage technologies such as Ceph and WEKA for scalable, high-performance storage.
- Create observability and monitoring systems with Prometheus and Grafana to surface cluster health and performance.
- Build and optimize container networking with Cilium for security and observability.
- Design federated Kubernetes architectures for multi-cluster management.
- Automate recurring infrastructure tasks and reduce operational overhead for developers running production workloads.
What We're Looking For
- At least 2 years of software development experience; approximately 5 years is preferred.
- Hands-on experience writing Go for Kubernetes environments and managing production Kubernetes clusters at meaningful scale.
- Experience with distributed storage such as Ceph or WEKA, and designing federated, multi-cluster Kubernetes architectures.
- Experience with GitOps and ArgoCD, plus infrastructure as code using Terraform, Helm, or comparable tools.
- Familiarity with container networking, CNI plugins, or service meshes such as Istio or Linkerd.
- Experience with cloud platforms and managed Kubernetes, automation, and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
- Experience with GPUs, bare-metal infrastructure, or open-source cloud-native projects is valuable.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary
$180,000 to $210,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
Full-time, on-site in San Francisco, California, United States.
Skills
- Kubernetes
- Go
- Argo CD
- Terraform
- Helm
- Ceph
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Istio
- Linkerd
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