Frontend Engineer - Cluster OS Platform

3 months ago

Responsibilities

Own the cluster management user interface, including provisioning flows, natural language interfaces, and real-time proactive system insights.
Design and build visualizations that make distributed system state understandable at a glance.
Integrate the frontend with Kubernetes APIs, GitOps controllers, and gRPC/cRPC backends.
Build scalable real-time reactive UIs with Convex.
Prototype interaction patterns, test assumptions, and iterate based on user feedback.
Collaborate with backend and platform teams on frontend protocols and architecture.
Establish frontend engineering patterns and maintainable code-quality practices as an early team member.

Strong frontend fundamentals and experience 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 and real-time/reactive UI patterns.
Production Kubernetes experience covering 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.
Experience with Prometheus and Grafana for cluster-health and performance observability.
Comfort working with complex state management representing real-world infrastructure.
At least 5 years of experience working with production Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
Strong Go skills for system-level tooling, controllers, and distributed systems components.
Preferred qualifications include policy-as-code and Kubernetes security tooling, systems or distributed-systems programming, AWS, GCP, Azure, managed Kubernetes services, developer-tools or infrastructure-product experience, and PostHog familiarity.