Remote-First Platform Engineer: Kubernetes & Cloud Infra

Inclusively Remote; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first global workforce

Health insurance

401k with 3% match

Home Office Set Up Allowance

Annual Book Allowance

Internet or phone reimbursement

Flexible Time Off

Company issued laptop

Wellness benefits

Job summary

Polygon Labs is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to manage production Kubernetes on GKE, implement Pulumi-based IaC, and lead GitOps with ArgoCD. You’ll handle GCP services, Cloudflare as code, and secrets lifecycle, while responding to incidents and building observability with Grafana.

You will work across Go, TypeScript, and Python, ensuring secure, scalable infrastructure with SOC2 controls and compliant practices, overlapping EU core hours for collaboration.

Qualifications

• Produced infrastructure experience in Kubernetes on GKE and cloud environments.
• Hands-on Pulumi experience managing environments, secrets, and configuration (TypeScript/Python).
• Experience with ArgoCD, GitOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and debugging pipeline race conditions.
• Strong hands-on experience with GCP services (IAM, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, VPC, Secret Manager) and Pub/Sub tuning.
• Experience managing Cloudflare Workers/DNS as code and cleaning stale preview environments.
• Experience owning secrets/config across services, including provisioning, rotation, naming conventions, and preventing cross-service authentication drift.
• Ability to triage production incidents with runbooks and incident.io workflows.
• Ability to review/approve infrastructure PRs and maintain safety and operational readiness.
• Knowledge of Grafana dashboards/alerting and Grafana Alloy or similar agent/collector layers.
• Security/compliance literacy with SOC2-driven infrastructure work in regulated environments.
• Ability to read Go and work across TS and Python codebases.
• Willingness to overlap core hours with EU business day.

Responsibilities

• Operate production Kubernetes environments on GKE including day-to-day cluster operations and reliability improvements.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Pulumi (TypeScript/Python).
• Manage GitOps with ArgoCD and maintain CI/CD pipelines; diagnose race conditions.
• Operate GCP infrastructure (IAM, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, VPC, Secret Manager) and tune Pub/Sub
• Manage Cloudflare as code (Workers/DNS) and lifecycle cleanup for preview envs.
• Own secrets/config lifecycle across services: provisioning, rotation, naming conventions, drift prevention.
• Respond to production incidents with triage, escalation, runbooks, incident.io workflows.
• Review/approve infrastructure PRs to uphold safety and operational readiness.
• Build Grafana dashboards and alerts; understand underlying agent/collector layers.
• Execute SOC2-driven infra and security work in regulated/sensitive-data environments.
• Read Go and work across TS and Python codebases.
• Coordinate with EU business hours for collaboration.

Skills

Kubernetes on GKE

Pulumi

TypeScript

Python

ArgoCD

GitOps

CI/CD

GCP IAM/Cloud SQL/Secret Manager

Cloudflare as code

Secrets management

Incident response

Grafana/Grafana Alloy

SOC2/compliance

Go

Cross-language reading (Go/TS/Python)

Tools

Pulumi ESC

ArgoCD

Grafana Alloy

Cloudflare

incident.io

Job description

Polygon Labs is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to manage production Kubernetes on GKE, implement Pulumi-based IaC, and lead GitOps with ArgoCD. You’ll handle GCP services, Cloudflare as code, and secrets lifecycle, while responding to incidents and building observability with Grafana.

You will work across Go, TypeScript, and Python, ensuring secure, scalable infrastructure with SOC2 controls and compliant practices, overlapping EU core hours for collaboration.