Clera

Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

San Francisco
Salary
$150,000 - $200,000 annually
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · San Francisco
Visa
Sponsors visas

Open. First seen 6 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage cloud-native startup building a next-generation platform that abstracts Kubernetes complexity while preserving its full power. As a Platform Engineer, you'll work closely with the founding team to design core platform features, GitOps workflows, and the infrastructure layer that makes multi-cluster management intuitive for developers. This is a high-impact, early-team opportunity where your contributions will directly shape the product and architecture.

What You'll Do

  • Build and extend core platform features using Go, including custom Kubernetes operators and controllers.
  • Design and implement GitOps workflows with ArgoCD to streamline and automate continuous deployment.
  • 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 storage.
  • Create observability and monitoring systems with Prometheus and Grafana to surface cluster health and performance metrics.
  • Build and optimize container networking with Cilium for network security and observability.
  • Design and implement federated Kubernetes architectures for multi-cluster management.
  • Build automation tooling to reduce operational overhead for developers running production workloads.
  • Contribute to open-source components and help establish platform architecture patterns as an early team member.

What We're Looking For

Required:

  • 2+ years of software development experience.
  • Proficiency in Go and Kubernetes, with hands-on experience building developer tools or infrastructure products.
  • Experience with ArgoCD and CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their managed Kubernetes offerings.
  • Experience with containerization, networking, and cloud-native architectures.
  • Self-directed, hungry to learn, and comfortable operating with autonomy.

Nice to Have:

  • Experience with distributed storage solutions such as Ceph or WEKA.
  • Experience with Terraform, Helm, Ansible, or Kubespray for infrastructure provisioning and orchestration.
  • Background with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) or CNI plugins.
  • Contributions to Kubernetes ecosystem tools or open-source projects.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Salary: $150,000 – $200,000 USD annually
  • Visa sponsorship available

Location

This is an on-site role based in San Francisco, CA. Candidates must be willing and able to work in person in San Francisco.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Ansible · Argo CD · Golang · Grafana · Helm · Istio · Prometheus

Rare in Clera's other 182 open postings.

Standard for DevOps / SRE / cloud roles

AWS · Azure · CI/CD · GCP · Kubernetes · Terraform

Common in DevOps / SRE / cloud postings at any company.

Compared with Clera's other open jobs.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 357 open in Engineering. 225 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

LLM (181 of 357), TypeScript (179 of 357), React (155 of 357), Python (150 of 357), Machine Learning (75 of 357), Supabase (73 of 357), PostgreSQL (69 of 357)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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Posting history

Reposted 2 times since 9 September 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.

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