Clera

Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

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3 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$150k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and extend core platform features in Go, including custom Kubernetes operators and controllers.
  • Design and implement GitOps workflows with ArgoCD for automated continuous deployment.
  • Develop infrastructure-as-code patterns with Terraform and Helm to provision and manage clusters.
  • Work on distributed storage solutions using Ceph and WEKA.
  • Create observability and monitoring systems with Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Build and optimize container networking with Cilium.
  • Design and implement federated Kubernetes architectures for multi-cluster management.
  • Build automation tooling to reduce operational overhead for developers running production workloads.
  • Contribute to open-source components and establish platform architecture patterns as an early team member.

Requirements

  • Have 2 or more years of software development experience.
  • Be proficient in Go and Kubernetes, with hands-on experience building developer tools or infrastructure products.
  • Have experience with ArgoCD, CI/CD pipelines, and automation workflows.
  • Be familiar with AWS, GCP, Azure, and their managed Kubernetes offerings.
  • Have experience with containerization, networking, and cloud-native architectures.
  • Nice-to-have experience includes Ceph or WEKA, Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Kubespray, Istio, Linkerd, CNI plugins, or contributions to Kubernetes ecosystem tools and open-source projects.

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship is available.
  • This is a high-impact early-team opportunity with direct influence on the product and architecture.
  • The role is on-site in San Francisco, California, and requires working in person.

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