kubernetes-operators jobs in San Diego

Senior Staff Software Engineer leading design and delivery of multi-tenant, distributed data platform services on Kubernetes at scale. You will mentor mid-level and junior engineers, architect highly available stateful workloads (databases, message queues, caches), and integrate AI into infrastructure and operational workflows.…See more The role requires 8+ years building production distributed systems, deep expertise in Kubernetes and at least one hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, GCP), and hands-on experience operating services like Postgres, Kafka, or Redis at scale with explicit HA, failover, and durability targets.

Staff Engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating the Forge Platform—a distributed-systems foundation serving autonomy, ML, simulation, and test teams. You will architect cloud-native backend infrastructure, establish reusable platform capabilities, define technical standards, and remain hands-on in production troubleshooting, performance analysis, and reliability improvement.…See more Required: deep expertise in production distributed systems, Go and Python, workflow orchestration, and the ability to translate complex architecture into usable interfaces across multiple downstream teams.

This Staff Platform Engineer role owns operational strategy and technical direction for enterprise GitLab (3,000+ users) and JFrog Artifactory platforms, leading cloud-native transformation and Kubernetes migrations. The position requires 7+ years of enterprise-scale platform operations, 5+ years each with self-managed GitLab and Artifactory in high-availability deployments, and 3+ years of deep Kubernetes expertise.…See more Responsibilities include designing multi-region active-active systems, establishing cloud-native best practices, mentoring team members, and influencing organizational standards for platform engineering and developer experience. Required expertise spans Linux kernel/networking, PostgreSQL high availability, AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes operators, service mesh (Istio), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), observability (Prometheus), and production automation in Python, Go, and Bash.