[Remote] Platform Engineer - Cloud Native

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. They are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Platform Engineer - Cloud Native to harden and scale the infrastructure powering Vultr's global cloud platform.

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

Skills

• 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

Benefits

• 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans.
• 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting
• Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
• 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
• Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
• $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year
• Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
• Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
• Company paid Wellable subscription

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