Devops Platform Engineer - CA, San Jose, United States
Originally posted 9 September 2026 by the employer.
This role will shape the internal developer platform across Kubernetes, observability, AI-enabled workloads, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
About the role
This role is for a hands-on Platform Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure foundations that enable engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure products. This role will shape the internal developer platform across Kubernetes, observability, AI-enabled workloads, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate scalable Kubernetes-based platform capabilities for development, test, and production workloads.
- Create reusable infrastructure-as-code modules, patterns, and automated workflows using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or Kustomize.
- Develop and evolve platform observability, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, service-level objectives, and operational runbooks.
- Build the infrastructure required to deploy, operate, observe, and govern AI/ML workloads, including model-serving, GPU-enabled compute, data-access, and workload-isolation patterns.
- Enable self-service for product and engineering teams through platform APIs, templates, documentation, golden paths, and CI/CD integrations.
- Investigate complex production issues, lead root-cause analysis, and implement durable preventative improvements.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, SRE, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience operating and automating Kubernetes environments.
- Experience with container technologies and deployment tooling, such as Docker, Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD, or Flux.
- Experience implementing infrastructure as code using Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
- Practical experience with observability platforms and concepts, including metrics, logging, distributed tracing, alerting, dashboards, and SLOs.
- Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language such as Python, Go, Bash, or TypeScript.
- Experience with CI/CD systems and automated software delivery practices.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across Linux, networking, containers, cloud or on-premise infrastructure, and distributed systems.
Nice to have
- Experience designing internal developer platforms or large-scale shared infrastructure.
- Experience with Prometheus, Python, Bash, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Tempo, Elastic, Datadog, or Splunk.
- Experience with IBM LSF and Netapp Storage.
- Experience with GitOps operating models.
- Experience supporting AI/ML infrastructure, model serving, GPU scheduling, Kubernetes operators, or AI workload orchestration.
- Knowledge of platform security practices, including identity and access management, secrets management, policy enforcement, image security, and supply-chain security.
- Experience with service mesh, API gateways, ingress, networking, or multi-cluster Kubernetes architectures.
- Semiconductor experience or EDA experience.
Skills: Kubernetes, observability, AI-enabled workloads, infrastructure as code, GPU-enabled compute
This role has been open 35 days — well below the 50-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
973
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$235k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (973 roles · 85 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 55 | 973 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 404 | 6140 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 21 d | 50 d (−29 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: Kubernetes, observability, AI-enabled workloads, infrastructure as code, GPU-enabled compute
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 289 open roles · median 44 d
- Qualcomm · 61 open roles · median 57 d
- AMD (this employer) · 57 open roles · median 21 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 90 d
- Intel Corporation · 40 open roles · median 9 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 80 d
How we counted: 973 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 85 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.