Join VultrVultr 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
- Contribute directly to Vultr's open-source ecosystem (terraform provider crossplane vultr-cli govultr)
- Improve overall reliability observability and operability of cloud-native services
- Collaborate with product platform and infrastructure teams on feature delivery
Qualifications- 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure
- Strong experience with Kubernetes administration and internals including scheduler kubelet and CRDs
- Proficiency in Go and scripting languages (Python Bash) for automation and tooling
- Deep knowledge of container security including image scanning runtime isolation and admission control
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform Ansible) and CI/CD pipeline design
- Familiarity with observability stack (Prometheus Grafana alerting) and incident response practices
- Excellent problem-solving skills across networking load balancing and distributed systems
Compensation$90,000 - $100,000
Final compensation will vary depending on years of experience, background/skill set, location, and applicable laws.
