Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

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

Full time | Fruition Executive Search | United States

Posted On 10/22/2026

Job Information

Technology

Work Experience 5+ years

$180K - $210K

City San Francisco

State/Province California

94105

Job Description

On behalf of our client San Francisco, CA, on-site Full-time

The build: Our client is building a Kubernetes platform that abstracts the complexity away while keeping the power. You'll work with the founding team to design systems, GitOps workflows, and the infrastructure layer that makes multi-cluster management feel intuitive for developers. Early team — your architecture patterns become the platform.

What you’ll do

• 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.
  

Requirements

What we’re looking for

• 2+ years of software development experience.
  
• Proficiency in Go and Kubernetes, with hands‑off experience building developer tools or infrastructure products.
  
• Experience with distributed storage such as Ceph and 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.
  
• Strong foundational software development skills and a willingness to learn.
  
• Contributions to Kubernetes ecosystem tools or similar open source projects.
  
• Experience with containerization, networking, and cloud‑native architectures.
  

Fruition Executive Search is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran disability or genetic information or any other reason prohibited by law in employment.