Cloud-Native Platform Engineer (Kubernetes & Go)

Jobicy; United States; A distancia; USD 125.000 - 135.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Vultr is seeking a highly skilled Platform Engineer – Cloud Native to harden and scale the infrastructure powering Vultr’s global cloud platform. The ideal candidate is a security-minded engineer with deep experience in Kubernetes, container runtimes, and infrastructure automation.

This is a highly visible role in a high-growth technology company, which will require a strong background in systems engineering, a security-first mindset, and the ability to operate across the full stack.

Formación

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes administration and internals (scheduler, kubelet, CRDs).
• Proficiency in Go and scripting languages (Python, Bash) for automation and tooling.

Responsabilidades

• Build and maintain production-grade automation using Terraform and Ansible.
• Develop and enhance core services behind VKE, VLB, VCR, and Inference.
• Engage deeply with Kubernetes internals (scheduler, kubelet, CRDs).
• Design and improve container runtime integrations (containerd, runc, OCI).
• Architect CI/CD improvements and deployment pipelines for large-scale systems.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across networking, load balancing, containers, and distributed systems.
• Harden platform infrastructure via security best practices including image scanning and admission controllers.
• Contribute to Vultr’s open-source ecosystem (terraform provider, crossplane, vultr-cli, govultr).
• Improve reliability, observability, and operability of cloud-native services.
• Collaborate with product, platform, and infrastructure teams on feature delivery.

Conocimientos

Kubernetes administration

DevOps

Go

Scripting (Python Bash)

Automation tooling

CI/CD pipelines

Security mindset

Herramientas

Terraform

Ansible

containerd/runc

Descripción del empleo

Vultr is seeking a highly skilled Platform Engineer – Cloud Native to harden and scale the infrastructure powering Vultr’s global cloud platform. The ideal candidate is a security-minded engineer with deep experience in Kubernetes, container runtimes, and infrastructure automation.

This is a highly visible role in a high-growth technology company, which will require a strong background in systems engineering, a security-first mindset, and the ability to operate across the full stack.