Software Engineer 4 - Kubernetes AI Platform Engineering

Role overview

Platform engineering responsibilities

• Develop Kubernetes CRDs, Operators, and Controllers in Golang to orchestrate AI workloads.
• Build GPU-aware scheduling, resource isolation, and workload orchestration for AI-native infrastructure.
• Integrate and manage Kubeflow, KServe, Ray, vLLM, and Triton Inference Server within the NKP stack.
• Drive architecture reviews, coding standards, and mentorship for junior and mid-level engineers.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, NKP Kubernetes, and Nutanix Data Services on data gravity and persistent storage.

Required experience and skills

• 6–8 years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years in scalable distributed systems, cloud platforms, or AI/ML infrastructure.
• Deep expertise in Golang and Python.
• Extensive Kubernetes internals experience, including Operators, Controllers, and Cluster API.
• Hands-on MLOps and distributed AI computing experience, such as Kubeflow, Ray, KServe, or PyTorch DDP.
• Strong understanding of Linux internals, networking, and container runtimes such as containerd or Docker.
• Proven experience designing developer-friendly APIs and scalable microservices architectures.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred qualifications

• CNCF or AI open-source contributions are a plus.
• Vector database and RAG familiarity is a plus.
• Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry experience for AI metrics is a plus.

Work arrangement

• The role is described as hybrid. In listed locations including Vancouver, employees are expected to work onsite at least 3 days per week; team guidance may vary.
• The role does not require travel.

Pay

• Expected base pay is CAD $151,000–$227,000 per year; additional compensation may include a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, or discretionary awards.

Benefits

• Vancouver benefits include RRSP matching, mental health and paramedical coverage, paid parental leave, equity programs, holidays, sick days, wellness days, and vacation starting at 10 days.