Principal Kubernetes Control Plane Engineer

13 days ago

Remote, United States or San Jose, CA, USAStaff+

Responsibilities

Design and implement scalable Kubernetes control plane architectures using Cluster API for fleet-wide automation.
Develop custom Kubernetes Operators and Custom Resource Definitions for lifecycle management and orchestration.
Optimize etcd performance and maintain reliable distributed state across cloud regions.
Implement secure multi-tenant isolation at the API server layer.
Architect zero-downtime upgrades and multi-cluster federation.
Integrate the control plane with AI Scheduling and Fabric teams and GPU orchestration layers.
Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and drive distributed systems architecture standards.
Identify and mitigate control plane failure modes before they affect customer training or inference workloads.

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
8+ years of software engineering experience and deep hands-on expertise in Go.
Extensive experience contributing to or extending Kubernetes, including Operators, API Server, etcd, or Cluster API.
Experience operating, debugging, and scaling large distributed systems in production.
Deep understanding of multi-tenancy, cluster federation, and API governance in cloud-native environments.
Familiarity with infrastructure automation such as Terraform and CI/CD pipelines, as well as managed cloud services.
Strong technical leadership and cross-functional architectural influence skills.
Excellent communication skills for translating complex requirements into engineering milestones.
Experience in high-velocity, high-growth engineering environments is highly preferred.

201-500 employees