Senior Staff Engineer, Bare Metal Kubernetes Platform
Core
Deploy, operate, and continuously improve a bare-metal Kubernetes platform across multiple metro locations, managing OS provisioning, control planes, and the software-defined data plane.
Role type
Senior Staff Engineer, Reliability Engineering
Builds
Multi-cluster Kubernetes fleet, automated OS provisioning pipelines, and software-defined data plane infrastructure
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / Bare Metal / Kubernetes
Required skills
Linux/Ubuntu provisioning at scale, PXE/iPXE imaging, cloud-init, BIOS/firmware management, Kubernetes cluster deployment (RKE2/kubeadm), etcd operations, CNI configuration, GitOps, Ansible, Terraform, BGP, VLANs, SR-IOV, zero-downtime upgrades
Preferred skills
6WIND VSR/DPDK, SDN platforms, LLM provider APIs, geographically distributed site operations
Technologies
Kubernetes, RKE2, kubeadm, Rancher, ArgoCD, Fleet, Ansible, Terraform, etcd, BGP, SR-IOV, Debian, Ubuntu
Responsibilities
Own OS installation and hardening on bare-metal servers; Deploy and operate Kubernetes clusters with quorum-based fault tolerance; Build and own CI/CD pipelines for data plane deployment; Operate on top of multi-metro underlay networks; Plan and execute rolling OS and Kubernetes upgrades with zero downtime; Administer centralized management plane and drive GitOps configuration management; Lead incident response and drive blameless postmortems
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC
