Frontend Engineer - Cluster OS Platform

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.

Own the cluster management user interface, including provisioning flows, natural language interfaces, and real-time proactive system insights.

Design and build visualization systems that make distributed state legible at a glance.

Surface the right information by integrating with Kubernetes APIs, GitOps controllers, and gRPC/cRPC backends.

Build real-time reactive UIs using Convex that scale from single users to large teams.

Prototype new interaction patterns for infrastructure management, test assumptions quickly, and iterate based on feedback.

Collaborate with backend and platform teams to design elegant protocols for the frontend.

Establish frontend architecture patterns and best practices as an early engineering team member.

Write maintainable, well-structured frontend code and champion code quality across the product.