3 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$90k - $100k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain production-grade automation using Ansible, Terraform, and Go.
- Develop and enhance core services behind VKE, VLB, VCR, and Inference.
- Work deeply with Kubernetes internals, including the scheduler, kubelet, controllers, and CRDs.
- Design, implement, and improve container runtime integrations using containerd, runc, and OCI.
- Architect CI/CD improvements and deployment pipelines for large-scale systems.
- Troubleshoot complex issues involving networking, load balancing, containers, and distributed systems.
- Harden platform infrastructure through vulnerability scanning, container image signing, admission controllers, and secrets management.
- Contribute to Vultr’s open-source ecosystem, including the Terraform provider, Crossplane, vultr-cli, and govultr.
- Improve reliability, observability, and operability of cloud-native services.
- Collaborate with product, platform, and infrastructure teams on feature delivery.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes administration and internals, including the scheduler, kubelet, and CRDs.
- Proficiency in Go and scripting languages including Python and Bash.
- Deep knowledge of container security, including image scanning, runtime isolation, and admission control.
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipeline design.
- Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, alerting, and incident response practices.
- Strong problem-solving ability across networking, load balancing, and distributed systems.
Benefits
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums.
- 401(k) plan with 100% matching up to 4% and immediate vesting.
- $2,500 annual professional development reimbursement.
- 11 holidays plus paid time off accrual and rollover.
- Increased PTO at three- and ten-year anniversaries, a one-month paid sabbatical every five years, and an annual anniversary bonus.
- $500 first-year remote office setup stipend and $400 each following year.
- Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month.
- Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month.
- Company-paid Wellable subscription.
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About Vultr
Vultr builds and operates a self-service cloud infrastructure platform offering Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, object storage, and managed Kubernetes for developers, startups, and enterprises. It runs in 33 data center locations worldwide and sells on-demand IaaS and GPU capacity, including AI infrastructure. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida, Vultr is privately held and announced a private equity financing in 2024.