Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)
CleraIndustrial Electrification company
San Francisco, United States$150,000 – $200,000 USD annuallyMid
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Build and extend a GitOps-native distributed operating system on top of Kubernetes.
- •Join an early-stage, venture-backed AI infrastructure startup building a next-generation, GitOps-native distributed operating system on top of Kubernetes.
- •As a Platform Engineer, you'll work directly alongside the founding team to design and build the core platform that abstracts Kubernetes complexity while preserving its power
- •enabling teams to go from bare metal to production AI clusters in days, not months.
- •This is a high-impact, hands-on role at a small (2–10 person) company with meaningful open-source components.
- •You'll shape architecture decisions, establish engineering patterns, and contribute to a product used by GPU-intensive AI inference and training workloads at scale.
- •Key Responsibilities Build and extend core platform features in Go, including custom Kubernetes operators and controllers.
- •Design and implement GitOps workflows with ArgoCD to make continuous deployment seamless and automatic.
- •Develop infrastructure-as-code patterns using Terraform and Helm to provision and manage clusters.
- •Create observability and monitoring systems with Prometheus and Grafana to surface cluster health and performance.
- •Build automation tooling that reduces operational overhead for developers running production workloads.
- •Requirements Proficiency in Go and hands-on Kubernetes experience (operators, CRDs, controllers).
- •Experience with GitOps workflows with ArgoCD and CI/CD pipeline automation.
- •Comfort with Terraform, Helm, and related infrastructure provisioning tools.
- •Ability to work on-site in San Francisco, CA.
- •Strong foundational engineering talent
- •we prioritize aptitude and hunger to learn over years of specific experience.
Required skills
KubernetesGoArgoCDTerraformHelmPrometheusGrafana
Nice-to-have skills
AnsibleAWSGoogle CloudAzure
Domain expertise
developer-toolsai
Benefits & perks
Early-stage equity, Visa sponsorship available
Tech stack
KubernetesGoArgoCDTerraformHelmPrometheusGrafanaLinuxAWSGoogle CloudAzureAnsible