About vCluster Labs
We are a venture-backed tech startup striving to be the leading force in enabling platform engineers. We raised +$30M from top-tier VCs such as Khosla Ventures (first investor in OpenAI, GitLab, Stripe, Doordash) and are in a hyper-growth phase looking for motivated people to complement our team. Our headquarters are in San Francisco (Salesforce Tower), but our team is distributed around the globe and we have a remote-first work culture.
We’re the company behind vCluster, an open-source technology for virtualizing Kubernetes (+10k GitHub stars). Open source is part of our DNA.
The adoption of our commercial product based on vCluster has grown extremely fast (multi-million dollar revenue) and our customer base includes some of the biggest companies in the world, including 6 Global Fortune 500 companies as well as some of the fastest-growing tech unicorns.
The Role
We’re building an Engineering Enablement function to help engineers—internal teams, external users, and customers—successfully understand and implement our highly technical Kubernetes infrastructure products. This isn’t a traditional technical writing role. We’re looking for people who’ve been in the trenches as Solutions Architects, DevOps, or Platform Engineers—who know real infrastructure inside out and enjoy making it clear and accessible for others.
As an Engineering Enablement Specialist, you’ll bridge the gap between complex infra (vCluster and vCluster Platform) and the teams who need to use it. You’ll create and maintain world-class technical documentation, and also get hands-on—deploying environments, supporting solution designs, and maintaining internal tooling.
Key Responsibilities
– Create technical documentation for vCluster focusing on real-world implementation scenarios
– Maintain and administer internal cloud infrastructure
– Build internal developer tools to improve documentation workflows and team velocity
– Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code for test environments
– Partner with engineering teams to understand technical concepts and translate them into clear documentation
– Test and validate all technical procedures in actual Kubernetes environments
– Maintain documentation-as-code workflows using Git-based processes
– Share knowledge and collaborate with team members on Kubernetes best practices
Required Skills & Experience
– Kubernetes expertise: Strong understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals—deployments, services, networking, and storage
– 2+ years hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production
– Experience documenting distributed systems or cloud-native architectures
– Documentation-as-code workflows and Git proficiency
– Basic ability to read code to understand implementation details
– Strong written communication skills
What Makes You a Great Fit
– You can navigate Kubernetes clusters, understand YAML manifests, and debug issues
– You can work with engineers to extract the information that matters
– You understand how teams adopt new infrastructure tools
– You test what you document—validating procedures actually work
– You know when to simplify without losing essential details
– You have opinions about documentation tooling and workflows
Nice to Have
– Experience with virtual Kubernetes clusters or namespace isolation concepts
– Proven ability to write clear technical documentation for engineering audiences
– Contributions to open-source documentation or technical blogs
– Experience with Terraform, Helm, or other infrastructure tooling
– Background in platform engineering, SRE, or developer advocacy roles
– Familiarity with CNCF ecosystem and cloud-native best practices
– Experience in fast-paced environments where documentation needs evolve quickly
Benefits
We offer the following benefits:
– Competitive Salary: We offer a competitive compensation package, including equity.
– Platinum-Level Insurance: Health, dental, vision, and life Insurance, including plans for you and eligible dependents (benefits vary depending on country).
– Flexible Working Schedule: You have a doctor’s appointment or need to head to the supermarket to get groceries at 2pm? We won’t have an issue with that. To us, results matter more than clocking in and out at the same time every day.
– Workplace Flexibility: We’re very flexible about where you work. We know things can change in life and we’re happy to adjust the work environment for you along the way.
Why join a startup like vCluster Labs?
Since we are a fast-moving startup, you will not be number 14,589 in our company but rather become an essential part of our team right from the start:
– Fast Application Process: We will typically get back to you within a week. No need to polish your resume for us. Just send us some links (e.g. LinkedIn, etc.), answer a few questions about your previous experiences, and hop on a quick Zoom call with one of our team members to see if you’re a good fit. We will respond quickly and make hiring decisions within days rather than months.
– Open-Minded Work Environment: You can always speak your mind – no company politics or unnecessary formalities. We are operating in a lean, honest, and efficient way and we are looking for different perspectives, constructive feedback and creative, motivated people who want to make a difference.
– Grow With The Company: We are a small company right now but we are growing incredibly fast because we work on something that has a lot of value to engineering teams in large enterprises. Joining vCluster Labs early will give you the chance to advance much faster to the next step on the career ladder than in any larger company.
– Responsibility From Day 1: You will see right from the start that your work will immediately have an impact in our company and you can shape the future of this company together with the rest of our team. Grow with us and benefit from being part of this journey from the start.
Culture & Values
At vCluster Labs, we value and stand for:
– Technical Excellence: We are determined to build best-in-class technology and ship high-quality software because we know that our users are engineers themselves.
– Customer Obsession: We are going above and beyond to make our customers and users happy, which means striving for great usability, excellent documentation and support as well as fast response times for feature requests and bug reports.
– Impressive Speed: From user feedback to shipping a new feature to address this feedback, we usually take less than a week in most cases and our users absolutely love us for this.
– Bold Innovation: We are constantly questioning the state-of-the-art to find and address important issues in our space, even if that means abandoning any existing technologies and starting from scratch again.
– Open Source & Open Mind: We are actively contributing and maintaining open-source projects and we believe that building an open-minded team culture that respects different perspectives and welcomes constructive feedback is equally paramount to our success.
vCluster Labs provides equal opportunities for all candidates. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment for everyone who becomes part of our team. We are also actively promoting measures to reduce bias throughout our hiring process to ensure that everyone gets the same opportunities.
Tagged as: 1-3 Years, 3-5 Years, 5+ Years, Git, Kubernetes
