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Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)
San Francisco, California, United States
Source: Clera careers · View original posting
- Pay
- $150,000 — $200,000 USD per year
Employer job description
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About the Role
Join an early-stage cloud-native startup building a next-generation platform that abstracts Kubernetes complexity while preserving its full power. As a Platform Engineer, you'll work closely with the founding team to design core platform features, GitOps workflows, and the infrastructure layer that makes multi-cluster management intuitive for developers. This is a high-impact, early-team opportunity where your contributions will directly shape the product and architecture.
What You'll Do
- Build and extend core platform features using
- Go
- , including custom Kubernetes operators and controllers.
- Design and implement
- GitOps workflows with ArgoCD to streamline and automate continuous deployment.
- Develop infrastructure-as-code patterns using
- Terraform and Helm to provision and manage clusters.
- Work on distributed storage solutions using
- Ceph and WEKA for high-performance, scalable storage.
- Create observability and monitoring systems with Prometheus and Grafana to surface cluster health and performance metrics.
- Build and optimize container networking with Cilium for network security and observability.
- Design and implement federated Kubernetes architectures for multi-cluster management.
- Build automation tooling to reduce operational overhead for developers running production workloads.
- Contribute to open-source components and help establish platform architecture patterns as an early team member.
What We're Looking For
- Required: 2+ years of software development experience.
- Proficiency in Go and
- Kubernetes
- , with hands-on experience building developer tools or infrastructure products.
- Experience with ArgoCD and CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (
- AWS, GCP, Azure
- ) and their managed Kubernetes offerings.
- Experience with containerization, networking, and cloud-native architectures.
- Self-directed, hungry to learn, and comfortable operating with autonomy.
- Nice to Have: Experience with distributed storage solutions such as Ceph or WEKA.
- Experience with Terraform, Helm, Ansible, or Kubespray for infrastructure provisioning and orchestration.
- Background with service mesh technologies (
- Istio, Linkerd
- ) or CNI plugins.
- Contributions to Kubernetes ecosystem tools or open-source projects.
Compensation
Compensation & Benefits
Salary:
$150,000 – $200,000 USD annually
Visa sponsorship available
Location
This is an on-site role based in San Francisco, CA
. Candidates must be willing and able to work in person in San Francisco.
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