Staff Kubernetes Platform Engineer
Company: Qualcomm Location: San Diego, CA, USA Source: hackernews
Salary: $116,800 - $175,200 plus top-tier benefits package
Apply Here: https://careers.qualcomm.com/careers/job/446706704240?domain...
About the Role
We are looking for a Kubernetes generalist to help expand and improve our Kubernetes platform automation. This role is a good fit if you enjoy writing operators or controllers to automate complex environments and welcome the challenge of configuring and tuning scaled Kubernetes platforms for enterprise usage.
The work focuses on operating and troubleshooting multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters across on-prem bare metal and cloud. It's hands-on, development+operational (DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering) work: keeping clusters healthy, building and improving automation, supporting high-performance GPU workloads, and evolving the platform as Kubernetes and our engineering needs change, all through GitOps style automation.
You'd be joining an experienced Kubernetes team, with room to grow your career through serious project work and mentoring.
Responsibilities
Example projects include:
- Developing self-healing automation
- Bare-metal platform integration, testing, benchmarking, and bring-up
- Implementation and evolution of new multi-tenancy patterns like vcluster
- Global policy management using Gatekeeper OPA and Validating Admission Policy
Requirements
- Comfortable on Linux (Ubuntu)
- A few years of Kubernetes administration experience
- Solid containerd and Kubernetes control-plane knowledge
- Ability to write and maintain automation in Python (or Go) and bash
- Familiarity with:
- Operator/controller patterns
- Helm
- Kustomize
- Kubernetes networking internals (Cilium)
- Git/GitHub
- Agile workflows
- Experience with Rancher/RKE2, Portworx, AI workflows/GPUs, OPA, Datadog is a plus, but not required.
Contact
Feel free to reach out directly at pkrizak@qualcomm.com if this sounds like work you already do, or want to do more of.