Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)
About the Role
This is an early-team platform engineering role at a seed-stage AI infrastructure startup building an open-source, GitOps-native distributed operating system on top of Kubernetes. You will work closely with the founding team to design and evolve core platform features, making multi-cluster management intuitive for developers running demanding AI workloads. The work spans the full infrastructure stack, from bare metal to production-grade Kubernetes.
What You'll Do
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.
Develop infrastructure-as-code patterns using Terraform and Helm to provision and manage clusters.
Work on distributed storage solutions using Ceph and WEKA for high-performance, scalable cluster storage.
Create observability and monitoring systems with Prometheus and Grafana to surface cluster health and performance.
Build and optimize container networking with Cilium for network security and observability.
Design and implement federated Kubernetes architectures for multi
