Senior-Staff Platform Engineer
Core
Designing and building the base layer for Cloudera's SaaS ecosystem, including Kubernetes on bare-metal and containerized OpenStack.
Role type
Senior Staff Platform Engineer
Builds
Cloudera Cloud Core (Kubernetes/OpenStack platform for AI and big data workloads)
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, OpenStack, enterprise data platforms
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Linux system administration, networking, system design, Kubernetes, GitOps workflows, infrastructure architecture
Preferred skills
OpenStack, Python, Bash, Terraform/OpenTofu, monitoring stack design, air-gapped deployment support
Technologies
Kubernetes, OpenStack, Helm, Python, Bash, GitHub, FluxCD, Harness, OpenTofu, Terraform, Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, Rook-Ceph, Cilium, Istio, Traefik, SPIRE, SPIFFE
Responsibilities
Design and build the platform product powering Cloudera's SaaS; Work on system architecture and GitOps-driven delivery at scale; Rewrite Ansible-based provisioning to use Kubernetes distribution; Build an enterprise-grade modern monitoring stack; Support running on hundreds of bare-metal servers; Drive GitOps adoption across provisioning and lifecycle management; Ensure compliance with security standards and support air-gapped deployments
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope
