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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Platform Engineer (Kubernetes) - **Company:** CLERA, LLC - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $200,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Build Automation, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Delivery, Distributed Computing Environment, Distributed Data Store, Monitoring of Systems, Network Security, Open Source Technology, Ansible, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Weka, Ceph (Software), Google Cloud, Istio, Grafana, Containerization, Kubernetes, Bare Metal, Linkerd (Service Mesh), Terraform - **Published:** August 6, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=48bc288f9b619421 ## About the Role * 2+ years of software development experience (strong foundational talent is prioritized over years of specific experience). * Proficiency in Go with hands-on experience building developer tools or infrastructure products. * Solid Kubernetes experience - operators, CRDs, controllers, and/or etcd. * Experience with distributed storage solutions such as Ceph and/or WEKA. * Genuine hunger and self-direction; you thrive with autonomy and take ownership of your work. Nice to Have: * Experience with ArgoCD and CI/CD pipeline automation workflows. * Hands-on experience with Terraform, Helm, and related IaC tooling; familiarity with Ansible or Kubespray is a plus. * Background with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) or CNI plugins. * Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their managed Kubernetes offerings. * Contributions to Kubernetes ecosystem tools or other open-source infrastructure projects. * Experience with containerization, networking, and cloud-native architectures. ## Description We're a small, fast-moving AI infrastructure company building an open-source, GitOps-native distributed operating system on top of Kubernetes - purpose-built to handle demanding AI workloads including inference pipelines, distributed training, storage orchestration, and GPU scheduling. Our platform enables companies to go from bare metal to a fully operational, production-grade AI cluster in days. As a Platform Engineer, you'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with the founding team to design and evolve the core platform: abstracting away Kubernetes complexity without sacrificing its power. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role at a company where your architectural decisions will directly shape the product and the engineering culture. Visa sponsorship is available., * 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 and automatic. * Develop infrastructure-as-code patterns using Terraform and Helm to provision and manage clusters at scale. * Work on distributed storage solutions using Ceph and WEKA for high-performance, scalable cluster storage. * Build observability and monitoring systems with Prometheus and Grafana to surface cluster health and performance. * Optimize container networking with Cilium for network security and deep observability. * Design and implement federated Kubernetes architectures for multi-cluster management. * Build automation tooling that reduces operational overhead for developers running production workloads. * Contribute to open-source components and help establish platform architecture patterns as an early team member. ## Related Videos - [5 steps for running a Kubernetes environment at scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/88-5-steps-for-running-a-kubernetes-environment-at-scale) - [One Platform Could Not Fit Them All](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1919-one-platform-could-not-fit-them-all) - [Rate-limiting using eBPF and Istio: How to protect your SaaS customers from themselves](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100220-rate-limiting-using-ebpf-and-istio-how-to-protect-your-saas-customers-from-themselves) - [From Factory Floor to Kubernetes Core: Building an Edge Platform One Step at a Time](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1415-from-factory-floor-to-kubernetes-core-building-an-edge-platform-one-step-at-a-time) - [Next-gen CI/CD with Gitops and Progressive Delivery](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1603-next-gen-ci-cd-with-gitops-and-progressive-delivery) - [Building a Cloud Platform Where Everything is Just Another Kubernetes Resource](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100137-building-a-cloud-platform-where-everything-is-just-another-kubernetes-resource) ## Related Articles - [Learning Kubernetes made easy with KubeCampus](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/348-learning-kubernetes-made-easy-with-kubecampus) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Best US AI Conferences for CTOs in 2026: Build vs. Buy, Vendor Evaluation, and Peer Intelligence](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/736-best-us-ai-conferences-for-ctos-in-2026-build-vs-buy-vendor-evaluation-and-peer-intelligence)