Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)
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Job Summary
The build: Our client is building a Kubernetes platform that abstracts the complexity away while keeping the power. Youll work with the founding team to design systems GitOps workflows and the infrastructure layer that makes multi-cluster management feel intuitive for developers. Early team your architecture patterns become the platform.
What youll do
- Build and extend the Kubernetes platform core features in Go including custom operators and controllers.
- Design and implement GitOps workflows with ArgoCD to streamline continuous deployment.
- Develop infrastructure-as-code patterns with Terraform and Helm to provision and manage clusters.
- Work on distributed storage with Ceph and WEKA for high-performance scalable storage.
- Create observability and monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana to surface cluster health and performance.
- Build and optimize container networking with Cilium for security and observability.
- Design and implement federated Kubernetes architectures for multi-cluster management.
- Build automation tooling to cut operational overhead for developers running production workloads.
- Contribute to open source components and establish platform architecture patterns as an early team member.
What were looking for
- 2 years of software development experience.
- Proficiency in Go and Kubernetes with hands-on experience building developer tools or infrastructure products.
- Experience with distributed storage such as Ceph and WEKA.
- Proficiency with ArgoCD and experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows.
- Experience with Terraform Helm and related infra provisioning tools; familiarity with Ansible or Kubespray is a plus.
- Background with service mesh (Istio or Linkerd) or CNI plugins.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS GCP Azure) and their managed Kubernetes offerings.
- Strong foundational software development skills and a willingness to learn.
- Contributions to Kubernetes ecosystem tools or similar open source projects.
- Experience with containerization networking and cloud-native architectures.
Required Skills:
Go Kubernetes Kubernetes operators/controllers ArgoCD GitOps Terraform Helm Ceph WEKA distributed storage Cilium container networking Prometheus Grafana service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) CI/CD AWS GCP Azure EKS/GKE/AKS cloud-native open source contribution Kubespray/Ansible
Required Education:
Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university is preferred but not required.
