Senior-Staff Platform Engineer

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At Cloudera, we empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. With as much data under management as the hyperscalers, we're the preferred data partner for the top companies in almost every industry.  Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises.

About the Role

We are building Cloudera Cloud Core — the base layer for the Cloudera ecosystem on-prem. Kubernetes runs on bare-metal servers (certified enterprise-grade hardware from Dell, Pure Storage), with containerized OpenStack running on top of that Kubernetes (deployed with openstack-helm). AI and big data workloads run on top of the platform. The product is based on the OpenStack Taikun product pillar and the majority of the team is based in the Czech republic, including full-remote co-workers. We are using mainly Claude and also other AI models are available through our LLM gateway.

Tech Stack:

- Kubernetes (bare-metal), containerized OpenStack (openstack-helm)

- Python, Bash

- GitHub, FluxCD, Harness, OpenTofu/Terraform

- Prometheus, Loki, Grafana

- Rook-Ceph

- Cilium, Istio-ambient, Traefik

As a Senior Staff Platform Engineer you will:  

• Design and build the platform product that powers Cloudera's SaaS.

• Work on system architecture, platform lifecycle and GitOps-driven delivery at scale

• Rewrite the current Ansible-based provisioning to use our own Kubernetes distribution

• Work on our lifecycle manager for the solution

• Build an enterprise-grade modern monitoring stack (greenfield project)

• Support running on hundreds of bare-metal servers (potentially thousands in some cases)

• Drive GitOps adoption (FluxCD) across provisioning and lifecycle management

• Ensure compliance with security standards (SPIRE/SPIFFE, FedRAMP) and support air-gapped deployments
   

We are excited about you if you have:

• 8+ years of related experience. 

• Deep Linux system administration and networking knowledge

• System design and infrastructure architecture (understanding the big picture)

• Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies

• GitOps workflows (FluxCD or similar)

What you can expect from us:

• Generous PTO Policy 

• Support work life balance with Unplugged Days

• Flexible WFH Policy 

• Mental & Physical Wellness programs 

• Phone and Internet Reimbursement program 

• Access to Continued Career Development 

• Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive Packages 

• Paid Volunteer Time

• Employee Resource Groups

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