Senior Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

Clera•San Francisco, CA

3d•$150,000 - $200,000•Hybrid

About The Position

You’ll join as a Platform Engineer focused on building and evolving a Kubernetes-based platform that abstracts complexity while preserving power. Work closely with the founding team to design systems, GitOps workflows, and the infrastructure layer that enables multi-cluster management for developers.

Requirements

2+ years of software development experience with a strong foundation in Go and Kubernetes.
Experience building developer tools or infrastructure products.
Proficiency with GitOps and ArgoCD.
Hands-on experience with infrastructure provisioning tools such as Terraform and Helm.
Background with service mesh technologies or CNI plugins.
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their managed Kubernetes offerings.
Strong willingness to learn on the job and work effectively in a fast-paced environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience with CI/CD pipelines is a plus.
Familiarity with Ansible or Kubespray is a plus.
Contributions to Kubernetes ecosystem tools or similar open source projects are a plus.

Responsibilities

Build and extend core platform features using Go, including custom Kubernetes operators and controllers.
Design and implement GitOps workflows with ArgoCD to streamline continuous deployment.
Develop infrastructure-as-code patterns using Terraform and Helm to provision and manage clusters.
Work on distributed storage solutions for high-performance, scalable storage.
Create observability and monitoring systems with Prometheus and Grafana to surface cluster health and performance.
Build and optimize container networking 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.