Clera

Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

San Francisco. Posted 7 days ago

The role

You will build platform features in Go including custom Kubernetes operators and controllers. You will develop tools to simplify production Kubernetes operations for AI workloads and manage multi-cluster infrastructure.

What you will do

  • Build platform features in Go, including custom Kubernetes operators and controllers.
  • Design GitOps workflows with ArgoCD to streamline continuous deployment.
  • Create infrastructure-as-code patterns with Terraform and Helm to provision and manage clusters.
  • Work on distributed storage using Ceph and WEKA.
  • Build observability systems with Prometheus and Grafana to surface cluster health and performance.
  • Optimize container networking with Cilium and related technologies.
  • Design federated Kubernetes architectures for multi-cluster management.
  • Automate recurring infrastructure work and reduce operational overhead for production workloads.

Required qualifications

  • At least 2 years of software development experience
  • Hands-on experience writing Go for Kubernetes environments, including production-scale cluster management.
  • Experience with distributed storage such as Ceph or WEKA and 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, service meshes, and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.

Nice to have

  • around 5 years preferred
  • Experience with cloud Kubernetes offerings, bare-metal infrastructure, or GPU workloads is useful.
  • Automation experience and contributions to Kubernetes or other open-source infrastructure projects are valued.

Before you apply

  • Visa sponsorship is available.

About the company

clera is an early-stage infrastructure team building tools that simplify production Kubernetes operations for demanding AI workloads.