Staff Infrastructure Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: Remote; must have authorization to work in the United States

Company

TensorWave provides a secure, reliable cloud platform for delivering AI compute at scale.

What you will do

• Design and evolve Kubernetes control plane architecture across regions and data centers.
• Define multi-tenant cluster models, isolation boundaries, resource segmentation, and policy enforcement.
• Own production platform reliability, participate in on-call rotation, and lead incident response and root cause analysis.
• Manage cluster provisioning, upgrades, scaling, topology, and failure-domain strategies.
• Design cluster and regional ingress and egress architectures and optimize pod networking, CNI behavior, and high-performance network integration.
• Improve observability, resilience, and platform alignment with compute, storage, networking, DevOps, and CI/CD infrastructure.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, or distributed systems.
• Deep experience operating Kubernetes at scale across multiple clusters, regions, or data centers.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals, including the API server, scheduler, controller manager, and etcd.
• Strong Linux systems expertise and troubleshooting ability across Kubernetes, container runtimes, and networking.
• Experience designing control plane architectures and multi-tenant cluster models.
• Authorization to work in the United States is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with virtual cluster technologies such as vcluster or Kamaji.
• Experience supporting GPU workloads, NUMA-aware scheduling, topology-aware workloads, RDMA, or high-throughput networking.
• Experience with Cilium and observability platforms such as Prometheus and Grafana.
• Experience in CSP, hyperscale, or equivalent large-scale environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work environment with flexible paid time off and paid holidays.
• Stock options.
• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees.
• Health savings account contributions, flexible spending account, and supplemental insurance options.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, parental leave, and employee assistance program.