Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

San Francisco. Posted 5 months ago

The role

You will build and extend core platform features using Go. You will design GitOps workflows, infrastructure-as-code patterns, and distributed storage solutions.

What you will do

Build and extend core platform features using Go, including custom Kubernetes operators and controllers.
Design and implement GitOps workflows with ArgoCD.
Develop infrastructure-as-code patterns using Terraform and Helm.
Work on distributed storage solutions using Ceph and WEKA.
Create observability and monitoring systems with Prometheus and Grafana.
Build and optimize container networking with Cilium.
Design and implement federated Kubernetes architectures.
Build automation tooling to reduce operational overhead.
Contribute to open-source components and help establish platform architecture patterns.

Required qualifications

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.

Before you apply

Visa sponsorship available

About the company

clera is an early-stage cloud-native startup building a next-generation platform that abstracts Kubernetes complexity.