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Clera

Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

San Francisco$150k–$200kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

An early-stage AI infrastructure startup is seeking a Platform Engineer to design and build a GitOps-native distributed operating system on Kubernetes. You'll work with the founding team to abstract Kubernetes complexity while enabling production AI clusters to deploy in days, focusing on core platform development in Go, custom operators, and multi-cluster management.

What you'll do

  • Build core platform features in Go, including custom Kubernetes operators and controllers
  • Design and implement GitOps workflows with ArgoCD for continuous deployment automation
  • Develop infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and Helm for cluster provisioning and management
  • Work on distributed storage solutions using Ceph and WEKA for high-performance cluster storage
  • Build observability and monitoring systems with Prometheus and Grafana to track cluster health
  • Design federated Kubernetes architectures and container networking with Cilium for multi-cluster management

What they're looking for

  • Go programming language
  • Kubernetes operators and custom resource definitions (CRDs)
  • ArgoCD and CI/CD pipeline automation
  • Terraform and Helm infrastructure-as-code
  • Distributed storage (Ceph, WEKA)
  • Prometheus and Grafana monitoring
  • Cilium container networking
  • Multi-cluster Kubernetes management

Benefits

  • Early-stage equity compensation
  • Visa sponsorship available
  • High-impact role shaping architecture at a founding-stage company
  • Work on open-source infrastructure components
  • Hands-on involvement in all platform design decisions
  • Focus on GPU-intensive AI workloads at scale
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Clera

Clera builds an agentic operating system that automates complex workflows and processes through AI agents, with a platform designed to simplify distributed infrastructure management for developers. The company is hiring Founding Engineers, Customer Engineers, and Product Engineers to develop both backend systems and user-facing interfaces across their AI automation products.

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Likely interview questions

  • Describe your experience building or extending Kubernetes operators and controllers—what was your most complex implementation?
  • Walk us through how you've designed a GitOps workflow with ArgoCD; what challenges did you encounter and how did you solve them?
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