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Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

Clera

Company websitegetclera.com (Clera, opens in new tab)

Base salary $180K  to $210K

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Francisco, CA

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  • LocationSan Francisco, CA
  • WorkplaceOn-site
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About this job

About the Role

Join an early-stage infrastructure team building tools that simplify production Kubernetes operations for demanding AI workloads. You will help develop the platform and systems behind reliable, multi-cluster infrastructure.

What You'll Do

  • Build platform features in Go, including custom Kubernetes operators and controllers.

  • Design GitOps workflows with ArgoCD to streamline continuous deployment.

  • Create infrastructure-as-code patterns with Terraform and Helm to provision and manage clusters.

  • Work on distributed storage using Ceph and WEKA.

  • Build observability systems with Prometheus and Grafana to surface cluster health and performance.

  • Optimize container networking with Cilium and related technologies.

  • Design federated Kubernetes architectures for multi-cluster management.

  • Automate recurring infrastructure work and reduce operational overhead for production workloads.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 2 years of software development experience, with around 5 years preferred.

  • Hands-on experience writing Go for Kubernetes environments, including production-scale cluster management.

  • Experience with distributed storage such as Ceph or WEKA and federated, multi-cluster Kubernetes architectures.

  • Experience with GitOps and ArgoCD, plus infrastructure as code using Terraform, Helm, or comparable tools.

  • Familiarity with container networking, CNI plugins, service meshes, and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.

  • Experience with cloud Kubernetes offerings, bare-metal infrastructure, or GPU workloads is useful.

  • Automation experience and contributions to Kubernetes or other open-source infrastructure projects are valued.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $180,000 to $210,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.

Source: Clera on Ashby · View original posting (opens in new tab)

Pay in context

This role's base floor ($180,000) is above 51% of the 4,664 Software Engineering roles in California listed on this site; 176 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $176,500; the middle half runs from $149,100 to $204,000.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 7, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live Clera roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live Clera roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Platform Engineer (Kubernetes) (this listing)$180K - $210K
Platform Engineer, Biotech$180K - $240K
Head of Engineering$180K - $220K
Senior Robotics Engineer, Controls$180K - $200K
QA Engineer$180K - $200K
Forward Deployed Engineer$180K - $220K
Founding Engineer$180K - $250K

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Clera roles · How to read the bar

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2026-11-07
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Location as the employer wrote it: San Francisco

Base salary is $180,000 to $210,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

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