Kubernetes Researcher

The role

You will research and ship new Kubernetes detections by finding optimization opportunities and proving them against customer data. You will own the Kubernetes domain end to end, including the detection library and roadmap. This role involves working with engineering, cloud provider APIs, billing systems, and data pipelines.

What you will do

• Research and ship new Kubernetes detections
• Find optimization opportunities and prove them against real customer data
• Lead the Kubernetes domain end to end including the detection library and roadmap
• Work hand-in-hand with engineering on Kubernetes internals, cloud provider APIs, billing systems, and data pipelines
• Bring domain expertise into pre-sales and post-sales processes
• Publish thought-leadership content on Kubernetes cost efficiency

Required qualifications

• 3+ years running production workloads on Kubernetes (EKS, GKE or AKS) as an SRE, platform, DevOps or infrastructure engineer
• Experience being on-call for production workloads
• Knowledge of how requests and limits drive scheduling and pod packing
• Knowledge of how cluster autoscaler and Karpenter behave under real load
• Knowledge of node group minimum size and instance architecture changes
• Independent and comfortable owning an ambiguity problem e2e
• Ability to orchestrate engineering work and translate research findings into technical requirements
• Deep, hands-on AWS knowledge (EC2, EKS, ECR, networking, Savings Plans, RIs, and more)
• Working knowledge of Azure or GCP
• Strong quantitative skills in analytics, statistics, and modeling
• Skeptical, evidence-first mindset
• Clear communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience running AI/ML infrastructure including GPU node pools, inference serving, or managed model platforms
• Hands-on FinOps experience
• Hands-on experience in dbt, Snowflake, GO
• Experience with ARM/Graviton migrations or large-scale rightsizing programs
• Data platform experience (Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery)
• Published technical research artifacts or experience in public speaking
• Contributions to related open-source projects
• Prior cloud security research experience
• Academic background

About the company

PointFive finds the cost buried inside enterprise infrastructure, from the cloud to coding agents. Engineering sits in Tel Aviv and the go-to-market team is focused on North America.