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Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

San Francisco💼 Full-time💰 $180,000–$210,000🗓 2026-10-01 → 2026-10-07

Core

Design and evolve core platform features for a distributed operating system on top of Kubernetes, enabling multi-cluster management for AI workloads.

Role type

Senior Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

Builds

GitOps workflows, custom Kubernetes operators/controllers, infrastructure-as-code patterns, distributed storage solutions, observability systems, and container networking tooling. (via careerplan.io/jobs/256bc7e5-a414-4c76-8fd1-722dc8af9b9a-platform-engineer-kubernetes-at-clera)

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure / Kubernetes / AI Workloads

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Go, Kubernetes (operators, controllers, CRDs), Terraform, Helm, Ceph, WEKA, Prometheus, Grafana, Cilium, ArgoCD, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Preferred skills

GPU infrastructure, bare metal environments, Ansible, Kubespray, Istio, Linkerd, open-source contributions

Technologies

Kubernetes, Go, Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, Ceph, WEKA, Prometheus, Grafana, Cilium, Istio, Linkerd

Responsibilities

Build and extend core platform features in Go; Design and implement GitOps workflows; Develop infrastructure-as-code patterns; Work on distributed storage solutions; Create observability and monitoring systems; Build and optimize container networking; Design and implement federated Kubernetes architectures; Build automation tooling.

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC