Platform Engineer – AI Infra & Kubernetes Stack

Volta; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity in Volta

Retirement/pension contributions

Health, wellbeing and insurance

Generous vacation days

Job summary

Volta is building out platform engineering teams to own the full stack from managed bare metal to higher-order platform services. Platform Engineers translate product roadmap requirements into durable platform capabilities while collaborating with product and security teams.

You will own production code, participate in on-call rotations, and ensure backward compatibility across interfaces. We seek engineers with strong backend or systems programming experience in Python, Go, or Rust, plus solid

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, with a meaningful portion spent on infrastructure or platform systems.
• Strong backend or systems programming experience in production; languages Python, Go, Rust (other languages welcome).
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes internals: control loop, CRDs, controllers, operators, and reconciliation.
• Comfortable near the infrastructure layer: Linux, networking fundamentals, and distributed systems behavior.
• Experience designing, building, and versioning production-grade APIs with backward compatibility.
• Experience operating what you build: debugging production systems, on-call or incident response.
• Strong engineering fundamentals: clean code, testing, version control, code review, and CI/CD practices.
• Fluency with AI-assisted development: agentic CLI tools, IDE assistants, and orchestrating multiple coding agents through MCP, skills, or APIs to amplify delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Kubernetes operators and controllers that manage the lifecycle of platform resources.
• Work closely with the product team to turn roadmap requirements into the platform capabilities that support them.
• Collaborate with the bring-up teams to identify operational pain points and turn them into scalable platform features.
• Integrate security guidance from the security engineering team into platform-level controls, and remediate findings at the platform layer.
• Treat observability as a platform concern: instrument services, define meaningful metrics, and build tooling that gives the team visibility into platform health.
• Own the services you build in production, including participation in an on-call rotation, incident response, and the follow-up work that closes structural gaps.
• Hold to clean interface and versioning practice on anything other teams or customers depend on, including disciplined handling of breaking changes.
• Participate in code review, technical design discussions, and cross-team collaboration in an Agile environment.
• Deep-dive areas: compute, storage, confidential computing, APIs, and customer-facing surfaces.

Skills

Software engineering

Backend development

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Rust

Linux networking

APIs design

CI/CD

On-call support

Tools

Kopf

controller-runtime

Job description

Volta is building out platform engineering teams to own the full stack from managed bare metal to higher-order platform services. Platform Engineers translate product roadmap requirements into durable platform capabilities while collaborating with product and security teams.

You will own production code, participate in on-call rotations, and ensure backward compatibility across interfaces. We seek engineers with strong backend or systems programming experience in Python, Go, or Rust, plus solid