Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Job Overview

Our mission at Tensorwave Cloud is to build seamless, secure, reliable, and resilient AI infrastructure at scale, eliminating barriers and challenging the status quo to empower builders and support AI innovation. This is a great opportunity for engineers ready to deepen their Kubernetes expertise while supporting cutting-edge AI environments in real-time.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and troubleshoot operational issues within Kubernetes environments
• Maintain and monitor core services (e.g., Cilium, HAProxy, Prometheus, etc.)
• Ensure uptime, performance, and reliability of multi-tenant clusters
• Assist with Ingress/Egress connectivity and network debugging
• Support internal and customer teams in secure, isolated VPC environments
• Collaborate with senior engineers on automation and cluster lifecycle improvements

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years experience in DevOps, SRE, or Linux infrastructure roles
• 4+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production
• 3+ years designing and operating multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms at CSP or hyperscaler scale (AWS EKS, GCP GKE, Azure AKS) including control plane architecture, cluster federation, and tenant isolation strategies
• Proven experience implementing production-grade cluster authentication (OIDC/SSO integration, RBAC policies) and advanced network design (CNI selection/configuration, network policies, service mesh architecture, cross-cluster networking)
• Familiarity with networking, CNI plugins, and core Linux troubleshooting
• Solid infrastructure-as-code mindset - Helm, Terraform, Ansible
• Strong experience with monitoring and logging tools - Prometheus, Grafana, Loki
• Understanding of secure infrastructure design principles and least-privilege access

About Tensorwave

Mission driven company offering competitive salary, stock options, 100% paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible PTO, paid holidays, 401(k), parental leave, flexible spending account, short term disability insurance, life and voluntary supplemental insurance, and mental health benefits through Spring Health.

Benefits

We’re looking for resilient, adaptable people to join our team, people who believe in the mission and think at massive scale. The solutions that worked on a handful of devices will not work at Exascale. Be prepared to be pushed daily, to learn a lot, and literally build the future. Tensorwave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace.