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# Senior Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

- **Company:** CLERA, LLC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Build Automation, Microsoft Azure, Continuous Delivery, Programming Tools, Distributed Data Store, Monitoring of Systems, Open Source Technology, Ansible, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Google Cloud, Istio, Grafana, Kubernetes, Terraform
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=7e50768a7b122b59

## About the Role

* 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; experience with CI/CD pipelines is a plus.
 * Hands-on experience with infrastructure provisioning tools such as Terraform and Helm; familiarity with Ansible or Kubespray is a plus.
 * Background with service mesh technologies or CNI plugins.
 * Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their managed Kubernetes offerings.
 * Contributions to Kubernetes ecosystem tools or similar open source projects are a plus.
 * Strong willingness to learn on the job and work effectively in a fast-paced environment.

## Description

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., * 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.


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