Kubernetes Platform Engineer — Build Core & GitOps

Fruition Executive Search; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Fruition Executive Search is seeking a software engineer to join an early Kubernetes platform team in San Francisco, CA. You will build core platform features, implement GitOps workflows, and design multi-cluster infrastructure to empower developers.

The role focuses on Go, Kubernetes, and cloud-native tooling, with opportunities to shape architecture, contribute to open source, and influence the platform’s direction as part of an on-site, full-time team.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of software development experience.
• Proficiency in Go and Kubernetes.
• Experience with distributed storage such as Ceph or WEKA.
• Proficiency with ArgoCD and experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows.
• Experience with Terraform, Helm, and related infra provisioning tools; familiarity with Ansible or Kubespray is a plus.
• Background with service mesh (Istio or Linkerd) or CNI plugins.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their managed Kubernetes offerings.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend the Kubernetes platform core features in Go, including custom operators and controllers.
• Design and implement GitOps workflows with ArgoCD to streamline continuous deployment.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code patterns with Terraform and Helm to provision and manage clusters.
• Work on distributed storage with Ceph and WEKA for high-performance, scalable storage.
• Create observability and monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana to surface cluster health and performance.
• Build and optimize container networking with Cilium for security and observability.
• Design and implement federated Kubernetes architectures for multi-cluster management.
• Build automation tooling to cut operational overhead for developers running production workloads.
• Contribute to open source components and establish platform architecture patterns as an early team member.

Skills

Go programming

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

ArgoCD

Distributed storage

Terraform/Helm

Cloud platforms

Tools

ArgoCD

Terraform

Helm

Kubespray

Ansible

Ceph

WEKA

Prometheus

Grafana

Cilium

Istio

Linkerd

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Fruition Executive Search is seeking a software engineer to join an early Kubernetes platform team in San Francisco, CA. You will build core platform features, implement GitOps workflows, and design multi-cluster infrastructure to empower developers.

The role focuses on Go, Kubernetes, and cloud-native tooling, with opportunities to shape architecture, contribute to open source, and influence the platform’s direction as part of an on-site, full-time team.