Platform Engineer, Kubernetes (Visa Sponsorship - San Francisco, United States)

Visa sponsorship available. An early-stage company building AI infrastructure tools that make running production Kubernetes simpler. The platform team develops capabilities for managing clusters and demanding workloads across varied infrastructure environments. This is a hands-on engineering role with a focus on cloud-native systems.

What you'll do

• Build platform features in Go, including custom Kubernetes operators and controllers.
• Design GitOps continuous deployment workflows using ArgoCD.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code patterns with Terraform and Helm to provision and manage clusters.
• Create observability and monitoring systems using Prometheus and Grafana.
• Design multi-cluster and federated Kubernetes architectures, and build container networking with Cilium.
• Automate operational workflows to reduce the overhead of running production workloads.

What you need

• At least 2 years of software development experience; around 5 years preferred.
• Hands-on experience writing Go for Kubernetes and running production clusters at meaningful scale.
• Experience with distributed storage (such as Ceph or WEKA) and multi-cluster management.
• Experience with GitOps/ArgoCD and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm or similar).
• Familiarity with CNI plugins, service mesh, and a major cloud platform (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and interest in cloud-native infrastructure. Experience with GPUs or bare-metal infrastructure is a plus.

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