5 months ago
Responsibilities
- Own the cluster management user interface, including provisioning flows, natural-language interfaces, and real-time proactive system insights.
- Design and build visualization systems that make distributed state understandable at a glance.
- Integrate the frontend with Kubernetes APIs, GitOps controllers, and gRPC/cRPC backends.
- Build scalable real-time reactive UIs using Convex.
- Prototype interaction patterns, test assumptions, and iterate based on user feedback.
- Collaborate with backend and platform teams on frontend protocols.
- Establish frontend architecture patterns and best practices as an early engineering team member.
- Write maintainable frontend code and champion product-wide code quality.
Requirements
- Strong frontend fundamentals and a track record shipping user-facing infrastructure or developer tools.
- End-to-end experience building Next.js applications with React, Tailwind, and shadcn/ui.
- Experience or familiarity with Convex for real-time and reactive UI patterns.
- Production Kubernetes experience, including internals, CRDs, operators, cluster architecture, etcd backup and restore, and cluster-health troubleshooting.
- Infrastructure-as-Code proficiency with Terraform and Helm.
- Deep GitOps experience with ArgoCD and declarative infrastructure and continuous-deployment patterns.
- Proficiency with Prometheus and Grafana for surfacing cluster health and performance.
- Comfort working with complex state management that reflects real-world infrastructure.
- At least 5 years of experience working in production Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
- Strong Go skills for system-level tooling, controllers, and distributed-systems components.
- Knowledge of policy-as-code and Kubernetes security tooling is preferred.
- Background in systems programming or distributed systems is preferred.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or managed Kubernetes offerings is preferred.
- Experience shipping developer tools or infrastructure products is preferred.
- Familiarity with analytics tools such as PostHog is preferred.
Benefits
- Early-team equity opportunity at a venture-backed infrastructure startup.
- On-site in San Francisco, California; remote work is not available.
- Visa sponsorship is not available.
- Competitive compensation commensurate with experience.