Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud Infra & Kubernetes

applied; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

In-office role

Occasional remote work for contractors

Job summary

Applied Intuition, Inc. is hiring for a platform/infrastructure role responsible for building and operating cloud-native Kubernetes infrastructure across multiple clouds.

You will own compute, networking, storage, autoscaling, observability, and security, ensuring high reliability for Dana and enterprise workloads. The position emphasizes multi-tenant platform primitives, secure sandboxed execution environments, and collaboration with internal customers to translate requirements into robust

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure, platform, SRE, or DevOps systems.
• Experience with container orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes.
• Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure or OCI).
• Proficiency in Go, Python, Rust, or C++, with ability to pick up new languages as needed.
• Fluency with Infrastructure as Code and GitOps workflows (Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, Crossplane, or similar).
• Strong communication and collaboration across teams; ability to drive cross-team execution.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate our multi-cluster Kubernetes infrastructure (compute, networking, storage, autoscaling, observability, and security) with high reliability across all cloud providers.
• Build multi-tenant platform primitives: tenant-safe storage, shared secrets, RBAC, and workload identity.
• Design and orchestrate secure, sandboxed execution environments for agentic and untrusted workloads.
• Act as a solutions architect for internal platform customers, turning scaling and reliability needs into concrete infrastructure designs and production deployments.
• Improve developer effectiveness by removing friction and building tooling to streamline workflows.
• Debug and profile edge cases in distributed systems, and own production end-to-end: incident command, postmortems, and preventive follow-ups.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews and collaboration.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Python

AWS

GCP

Terraform

GitOps

Linux

RBAC

Distributed systems

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Pulumi

Karpenter

Job description

Applied Intuition, Inc. is hiring for a platform/infrastructure role responsible for building and operating cloud-native Kubernetes infrastructure across multiple clouds.

You will own compute, networking, storage, autoscaling, observability, and security, ensuring high reliability for Dana and enterprise workloads. The position emphasizes multi-tenant platform primitives, secure sandboxed execution environments, and collaboration with internal customers to translate requirements into robust