Senior Staff Engineer, Bare Metal Kubernetes Platform

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to join the Reliability Engineering team that operates a bare-metal Kubernetes platform across multiple metro locations. The platform's architecture is defined and the build is underway, you will help deploy, operate and continuously improve it, from OS provisioning on racked servers through a multi-cluster fleet managed from a central management plane, with a software-defined data plane deployed via GitOps.

What you'll do

• OS Provisioning & Bare-Metal Infrastructure
• Own OS installation (Debian/Ubuntu) across bare-metal servers in multiple metros using PXE/iPXE imaging and cloud-init, and harden the OS prior to cluster bootstrap
• Build and maintain a repeatable, zero-touch provisioning pipeline so every metro is deployed consistently without manual per-node intervention
• Partner with the teams that own the hardware on BIOS/firmware baselines, high-speed NIC configuration and disk layout standards (separate NVMe for etcd
• Kubernetes Control Plane & Worker Nodes

What you need

• Kubernetes
• CI/CD
• Linux
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Incident response
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Performance testing
• LLMs
• Fleet management
• Firewalls