Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)
About the Role
This is an early-team Platform Engineer 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, helping take companies from bare metal to production-grade AI clusters in days. Your work directly shapes the architecture that makes multi-cluster Kubernetes management intuitive for developers running demanding GPU workloads.
What You'll Do
Build and extend core platform features in Go, including custom Kubernetes operators and controllers.
Design and implement GitOps workflows using ArgoCD to make continuous deployment feel seamless.
Develop infrastructure-as-code patterns with 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 deep observability.
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