About the Role
A well-funded early-stage Kubernetes infrastructure company is hiring a Frontend Engineer to design and build the interface for their flagship OS-like platform — an experience that makes distributed systems approachable for both individual tinkerers and production engineering teams. You'll help define interaction patterns, visualizations, and real-time UIs that translate complex cluster state into clear, actionable experiences. This is a high-impact, early-team role based on-site in San Francisco.
What You'll Do
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Own the cluster management user interface, including provisioning flows, natural language interfaces, and real-time proactive system insights.
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Design and build visualization systems that make distributed state legible at a glance.
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Surface the right information by integrating with Kubernetes APIs, GitOps controllers, and gRPC/cRPC backends.
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Build real-time reactive UIs using Convex that scale from single users to large teams.
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Prototype new interaction patterns for infrastructure management, test assumptions quickly, and iterate based on feedback.
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Collaborate with backend and platform teams to design elegant protocols for the frontend.
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Establish frontend architecture patterns and best practices as an early engineering team member.
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Write maintainable, well-structured frontend code and champion code quality across the product.
What We're Looking For
Required
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Strong frontend fundamentals with a track record shipping user-facing infrastructure or developer tools.
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End-to-end experience building Next.js applications using React, Tailwind, and shadcn/ui.
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Experience or familiarity with Convex for real-time/reactive UI patterns.
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Production Kubernetes experience — internals, CRDs, operators, cluster architecture, etcd backup/restore, and troubleshooting cluster health.
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Infrastructure as Code proficiency with Terraform and Helm.
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Deep GitOps experience with ArgoCD and declarative infrastructure/continuous deployment patterns.
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Proficiency with observability tooling — Prometheus and Grafana for surfacing cluster health and performance.
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Comfortable working with complex state management that reflects real-world infrastructure.
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5+ years working in production Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
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Strong Go skills for building system-level tooling, controllers, and distributed systems components.
Nice to Have
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Policy-as-code and security tooling for Kubernetes.
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Background in systems programming or distributed systems.
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Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their managed Kubernetes offerings.
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Track record shipping developer tools or infrastructure products.
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Familiarity with analytics tools such as PostHog.
Location & Work Arrangement
This role is on-site in San Francisco, CA. Remote work is not available for this position. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Compensation & Benefits
Competitive compensation commensurate with experience. Early-team equity opportunity at a venture-backed infrastructure startup.
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