Senior Kubernetes Developer

Senior Kubernetes Developer

Location: Dallas, TX Preferred

Work Arrangement: Hybrid, 3 Days Onsite / 2 Days Remote

Remote Flexibility: Full remote may be considered for the right candidate

Relocation: Available for qualified non-local candidates

Employment Type: Direct Hire

Overview

Our client is seeking a Senior Kubernetes Developer to design and build the software powering a next-generation GPU-accelerated compute platform supporting AI, machine learning, LLM, and HPC workloads.

This is a software development role focused on Kubernetes, not a traditional DevOps, SRE, or Kubernetes administration position.

The core focus is building Kubernetes-native software including custom operators, controllers, CRDs, APIs, schedulers, and internal platform services used to orchestrate large-scale GPU infrastructure.

The ideal candidate is a strong developer who understands Kubernetes internals and has experience building software on top of Kubernetes, not simply deploying applications or maintaining clusters.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop Kubernetes-native software using Go, Python, or similar languages.
• Build custom operators, controllers, CRDs, APIs, and platform services.
• Extend Kubernetes to support GPU-intensive AI/ML and HPC workloads.
• Develop automation for cluster provisioning, lifecycle management, scheduling, and infrastructure orchestration.
• Build GPU scheduling, allocation, workload placement, and resource-isolation capabilities.
• Integrate NVIDIA technologies including GPU Operator, device plugins, MIG, and DCGM.
• Develop internal tools and APIs for provisioning and managing GPU compute resources.
• Improve platform scalability, GPU utilization, workload performance, and reliability.
• Integrate Kubernetes with high-performance networking, storage, and bare-metal infrastructure.
• Build observability and automated remediation capabilities for distributed compute environments.

Required Qualifications

• Strong software development experience with Go, Python, or another modern programming language.
• Hands-on experience building Kubernetes operators, controllers, CRDs, APIs, or similar Kubernetes-native software.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture, controllers, reconciliation, scheduling, RBAC, networking, and cluster lifecycle.
• Experience building platforms or distributed systems on Kubernetes.
• Experience with GPU infrastructure and NVIDIA technologies.
• Experience supporting AI/ML, LLM, HPC, or other compute-intensive workloads.
• Strong Linux and distributed systems knowledge.
• Experience with Terraform, Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD, Flux, or similar tooling.
• Ability to troubleshoot across Kubernetes, compute, networking, storage, GPU, and application layers.

Preferred Experience

• NVIDIA GPU clusters.
• Slurm, Volcano, kube-scheduler extensions, or custom scheduling.
• CUDA, NCCL, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
• InfiniBand, RDMA, RoCE, or other high-performance networking.
• Bare-metal Kubernetes.
• Internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure.
• AI infrastructure, HPC, cloud infrastructure, or large-scale distributed systems.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a software developer who builds Kubernetes-native systems.

This person should be comfortable writing operators, controllers, APIs, schedulers, and automation that extend Kubernetes and manage complex GPU infrastructure.

Candidates whose background is primarily DevOps, CI/CD, Terraform administration, application deployment, or Kubernetes operations without substantial software development experience are unlikely to be the right fit.

Dallas-based candidates are preferred, but full remote may be considered for candidates with exceptional Kubernetes development and GPU infrastructure experience.