Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

Fruition Executive Search•San Francisco, CA

2d•$180,000 - $210,000•Onsite

About The Position

Our client is building a Kubernetes platform that abstracts complexity while retaining power. As an early team member working with the founding team, the Platform Engineer will design systems, GitOps workflows, and the infrastructure layer for intuitive multi-cluster management. The role involves building platform features and automation, contributing to open-source components, and establishing platform architecture patterns. The position is on-site in San Francisco, California, and is full-time.

Requirements

At least 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 infrastructure provisioning tools.
Background with service mesh (Istio or Linkerd) or CNI plugins.
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and their managed Kubernetes offerings.
Strong foundational software development skills and willingness to learn.
Contributions to Kubernetes ecosystem tools or similar open-source projects.
Experience with containerization, networking, and cloud-native architectures.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Ansible or Kubespray.

Responsibilities

Build and extend 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 reduce operational overhead for developers running production workloads.
Contribute to open-source components and establish platform architecture patterns as an early team member.

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