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Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

Clera

San Francisco

  • $180,000–$210,000 per year
  • Onsite
  • Full Time
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About the role

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.