kubernetes-networking jobs in San Diego

Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate a cloud-native compute platform on AWS and Kubernetes. You will own platform security, scalability, and evolution through strategic initiatives and migration efforts, lead incident response and troubleshooting, and provide technical leadership and mentorship.…See more Requires 8+ years in platform/SRE/infrastructure engineering with deep AWS expertise, production Kubernetes experience, hands-on CI/CD (GitHub, GitHub Actions, Argo CD), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CDK), Kubernetes networking knowledge, and production observability/monitoring skills.

Staff Engineer who will design, build, and operate the Forge Platform—a distributed-systems foundation serving autonomy, ML Ops, simulation, and application teams. You will own architecture and technical standards for workflow orchestration, asynchronous processing, event-driven systems, and long-running service workflows while remaining hands-on in implementation, production troubleshooting, and reliability improvement.…See more Required: strong production experience with distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, or backend infrastructure; fluency in Go and Python; deep understanding of failure handling, consistency, fault tolerance, and state management; and ability to turn recurring infrastructure needs into reusable platform capabilities. You will work across Kubernetes, service networking, observability, and data pipelines to enable downstream teams to move faster on mission-critical systems.

Lead the design, development, and operation of Qualcomm's enterprise AI platform, supporting agentic AI, model lifecycle management, and multi-cloud ML/inference infrastructure. Own core platform services including identity/RBAC, secrets, service meshes, observability, vector stores, and model gateways across on-prem GPU clusters and managed cloud services.…See more Manage a ~10-engineer global team (platform, SRE, MLOps/LLMOps), drive incident response and continuous improvement, and partner with product and security teams on AI governance and high-impact use cases.

Design, build, and operate an enterprise Kubernetes platform at scale across Qualcomm, establishing organizational standards for cluster operations, GitOps workflows with Argo CD, and security policies using Kyverno and Cilium. Own platform reliability, observability (Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana), and cost efficiency while serving as technical authority for security governance and multi-cloud strategy.…See more Lead cross-organizational teams without direct authority, mentor staff engineers, drive technology evaluation across the CNCF landscape, and participate in on-call incident response including 24/7 coverage.