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Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

Fruition Executive Search San Francisco, California, United States · $180K–$210K/yr

Executive Search Services · 2-10 employees

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kubernetes Senior (5-10 yrs) Full-time United States
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About the role

You will design and build core Kubernetes platform features, including custom operators, controllers, and GitOps workflows. Additionally, you will implement infrastructure-as-code patterns and manage high-performance storage and observability solutions.

What they look for

Go Kubernetes GitOps ArgoCD Terraform Helm Ceph WEKA Prometheus Grafana Cilium Infrastructure-as-code Distributed storage Container networking Cloud-native architecture CI/CD

Requirements

Candidates must have 2+ years of software development experience with proficiency in Go and Kubernetes. Strong experience with infrastructure provisioning tools, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native architectures is required.

Full description

Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

On behalf of our client · San Francisco, CA, on-site · Full-time

The build: Our client is building a Kubernetes platform that abstracts the complexity away while keeping the power. You'll work with the founding team to design systems, GitOps workflows, and the infrastructure layer that makes multi-cluster management feel intuitive for developers. Early team — your architecture patterns become the platform.

What you'll do

  • Build

and extend the 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 cut operational overhead for developers running production workloads.

  • Contribute

to open source components and establish platform architecture patterns as an early team member.

Requirements

What we're looking for

  • 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 infra provisioning tools; familiarity with Ansible or Kubespray is a plus.

  • Background

with service mesh (Istio or Linkerd) or CNI plugins.

  • Experience

with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their managed Kubernetes offerings.

  • Strong

foundational software development skills and a willingness to learn.

  • Contributions

to Kubernetes ecosystem tools or similar open source projects.

  • Experience

with containerization, networking, and cloud-native architectures.

Logistics: San Francisco, CA, on-site.

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