Kubegrade Hiring Kubernetes Engineer Remote - AI-powered Kubernetes Automation Platform
Job Description
Join Kubegrade as a Kubernetes Engineer and help automate Kubernetes upgrades, maintenance, drift detection, and troubleshooting using AI agents and GitOps workflows. We build for platform teams running real production clusters at scale - this is not a toy environment. This role requires deep, hands-on Kubernetes experience and assumes you will work directly with our platform to validate real-world Kubernetes workflows.
Requirements
- Design, operate, and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters in production environments
- Work directly with Kubegrades platform to validate real-world Kubernetes workflows
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to improve cluster visibility and UX
- Define troubleshooting and remediation logic
- Translate Kubernetes operational pain into product requirements
- Analyze failures related to upgrades, API deprecations, configuration drift, and misconfigured workloads, networking, storage, or security
- Contribute to internal tooling, automation, and best practices
- Act as a Kubernetes domain expert in product discussions
Requirements*
We are looking for candidates with strong, practical Kubernetes experience (not theoretical) and the ability to work autonomously in a remote, async environment.
Required Experience:
- Strong, practical Kubernetes experience
- Proven ability to debug production incidents
- Ability to reason about control plane vs workload issues
- Understanding of real upgrade and lifecycle challenges
- Solid knowledge of Kubernetes internals
- Experience with Helm, Kustomize, or GitOps workflows
- Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, logs, traces)
- Comfortable working autonomously in a remote, async environment
Strong Plus:
- Platform / SRE / DevOps background in regulated or large-scale environments
- Experience operating 10+ clusters
- Familiarity with Kubernetes upgrades across multiple versions
- API deprecation management experience
- Multi-cloud or hybrid environments experience
- Opinionated views on how Kubernetes tooling should work
What We Value:
- Depth of Kubernetes understanding
- Ability to reason clearly about complex systems
- Direct, technical communication
- Independent problem-solving
- Product thinking grounded in real operational pain
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