Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)
Clera · San Francisco
- Location
- San Francisco
- Salary
- $180,000 to $210,000 USD
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Funding
- $3M
- Posted
- Oct 31, 2026
Clera is hiring a Platform Engineer (Kubernetes) based in San Francisco. Every apply link on Engg.space goes straight to the company's own careers page - no recruiter middleman, no generic job-board form.
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ABOUT THE ROLE Join an early-stage cloud infrastructure team building tools that simplify production Kubernetes and multi-cluster operations, including demanding AI workloads. You will help shape the platform and its architecture while making complex infrastructure easier for developers to operate. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build platform features in Go, including custom Kubernetes operators and controllers. - Design GitOps workflows with ArgoCD to streamline continuous deployment. - Develop infrastructure-as-code patterns with Terraform and Helm to provision and manage clusters. - Work with distributed storage technologies such as Ceph and WEKA for scalable, high-performance storage. - Create observability and monitoring systems with Prometheus and Grafana to surface cluster health and performance. - Build and optimize container networking with Cilium for security and observability. - Design federated Kubernetes architectures for multi-cluster management. - Automate recurring infrastructure tasks and reduce operational overhead for developers running production workloads. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - At least 2 years of software development experience; approximately 5 years is preferred. - Hands-on experience writing Go for Kubernetes environments and managing production Kubernetes clusters at meaningful scale. - Experience with distributed storage such as Ceph or WEKA, and designing federated, multi-cluster Kubernetes architectures. - Experience with GitOps and ArgoCD, plus infrastructure as code using Terraform, Helm, or comparable tools. - Familiarity with container networking, CNI plugins, or service meshes such as Istio or Linkerd. - Experience with cloud platforms and managed Kubernetes, automation, and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana. - Experience with GPUs, bare-metal infrastructure, or open-source cloud-native projects is valuable. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary: $180,000 to $210,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available. LOCATION Full-time, on-site in San Francisco, California, United States.
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