Clera
Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)
- Compensation
- $180K–$210K / yr
- From job posting
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- Arrangement
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Posted
- 1 October 2026 (today)
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About this role
ABOUT THE ROLE
This is an early-team platform engineering role at a seed-stage AI infrastructure startup building an open-source, GitOps-native distributed operating system on top of Kubernetes. You will work closely with the founding team to design and evolve core platform features, making multi-cluster management intuitive for developers running demanding AI workloads. The work spans the full infrastructure stack, from bare metal to production-grade Kubernetes.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build and extend core platform features in Go, including custom Kubernetes operators and controllers.
- Design and implement GitOps workflows with ArgoCD to make continuous deployment seamless.
- Develop infrastructure-as-code patterns using Terraform and Helm to provision and manage clusters.
- Work on distributed storage solutions using Ceph and WEKA for high-performance, scalable cluster storage.
- Create observability and monitoring systems with Prometheus and Grafana to surface cluster health and performance.
- Build and optimize container networking with Cilium for network security and observability.
- Design and implement federated Kubernetes architectures for multi-cluster management.
- Build automation tooling that reduces operational overhead for developers running production workloads.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- 2 to 5+ years of software development experience, with a strong systems or infrastructure focus.
- Hands-on proficiency in Go, including writing Go in a Kubernetes environment.
- Production Kubernetes experience: managing clusters at meaningful scale, writing operators and controllers, working with CRDs.
- Experience with distributed storage solutions such as Ceph or WEKA.
- Experience designing federated Kubernetes architectures for multi-cluster management.
- Familiarity with GitOps workflows and ArgoCD.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Helm; Ansible or Kubespray is a plus.
- Background with container networking, CNI plugins, or service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and their managed Kubernetes offerings.
- Familiarity with observability tooling such as Prometheus and Grafana.
- Experience with GPU infrastructure or bare metal environments is a strong plus.
- Contributions to Kubernetes ecosystem tooling or similar open-source infrastructure projects are a bonus.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Salary range: $180,000 to $210,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
LOCATION
On-site in San Francisco, California. Candidates must be able to work in person full-time.
Work location
- San Francisco, CA, US
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Published 1 October 2026, last checked today. A posting stops being advertised here 90 days after the employer published it, and one the employer takes down is marked closed rather than quietly removed.