Vultr is seeking a highly skilled and experienced 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, which will require a strong background in systems engineering, a security-first mindset, and the ability to operate across the full stack. This is your opportunity to join our fast growing team and leave your mark on Vultr and the future of Cloud Infrastructure.
Key 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, container image signing, admission controllers, and secrets management
