Platform Engineer – Kubernetes & Cloud Infra

Vultr; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Professional development

Paid time off

Remote office stipend

Internet stipend

Gym reimbursement

Job summary

Vultr is seeking a highly skilled Platform Engineer 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 requiring a strong background in systems engineering, a security-first mindset, and the ability to operate across the full stack.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes administration and internals including scheduler kubelet CRDs.
• Proficiency in Go and scripting languages (Python Bash) for automation and tooling.
• Deep knowledge of container security including image scanning runtime isolation and admission control.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform Ansible) and CI/CD pipeline design.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain production-grade automation using Ansible Terraform and Go.
• Develop and enhance core services behind VKE VLB (HAProxy) VCR (Container Registry) and Inference.
• Engage deeply with Kubernetes internals (scheduler kubelet controllers CRDs).
• Design implement 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 through security best practices including vulnerability scanning admission controllers and secrets management.
• Contribute directly to Vultr’s open-source ecosystem (terraform provider crossplane vultr-cli govultr).
• Improve overall reliability observability and operability of cloud-native services.
• Collaborate with product platform and infrastructure teams on feature delivery.

Skills

Kubernetes internals

Automation scripting

Problem solving

Security mindset

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Go

CI/CD

Job description

Vultr is seeking a highly skilled Platform Engineer 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 requiring a strong background in systems engineering, a security-first mindset, and the ability to operate across the full stack.