Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

On behalf of our client San Francisco CA on-site Full-time

The build: Our client is building a Kubernetes platform that abstracts the complexity away while keeping the power. Youll work with the founding team to design systems GitOps workflows and the infrastructure layer that makes multi-cluster management feel intuitive for developers. Early team your architecture patterns become the platform.

What youll do

• Build and extend the Kubernetes platform core features in Go including custom operators and controllers.
  
• Design and implement GitOps workflows with ArgoCD to streamline continuous deployment.
  
• Develop infrastructure-as-code patterns with Terraform and Helm to provision and manage clusters.
  
• Work on distributed storage with Ceph and WEKA for high-performance scalable storage.
  
• Create observability and monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana to surface cluster health and performance.
  
• Build and optimize container networking with Cilium for security and observability.
  
• Design and implement federated Kubernetes architectures for multi-cluster management.
  
• Build automation tooling to cut operational overhead for developers running production workloads.
  
• Contribute to open source components and establish platform architecture patterns as an early team member.
  

Requirements

What were looking for

• 2 years of software development experience.
  
• Proficiency in Go and Kubernetes with hands-on experience building developer tools or infrastructure products.
  
• Experience with distributed storage such as Ceph and WEKA.
  
• Proficiency with ArgoCD and experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows.
  
• Experience with Terraform Helm and related infra provisioning tools; familiarity with Ansible or Kubespray is a plus.
  
• Background with service mesh (Istio or Linkerd) or CNI plugins.
  
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS GCP Azure) and their managed Kubernetes offerings.
  
• Strong foundational software development skills and a willingness to learn.
  
• Contributions to Kubernetes ecosystem tools or similar open source projects.
  
• Experience with containerization networking and cloud-native architectures.
  

Logistics: San Francisco CA on-site.

Required Skills:

Go Kubernetes Kubernetes operators/controllers ArgoCD GitOps Terraform Helm Ceph WEKA distributed storage Cilium container networking Prometheus Grafana service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) CI/CD AWS GCP Azure EKS/GKE/AKS cloud-native open source contribution Kubespray/Ansible

Required Education:

Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university is preferred but not required.