Companies using Kubernetes: 270 startups hiring for it (Oct 2026)

270 of 412 venture-backed and growth companies mention Kubernetes in at least one currently open job post. Below are the 25 with the most roles mentioning it, each with a public job post as evidence. Companies that hire for a tool are investing in that stack now, which makes this list useful for account targeting, competitive displacement and partner sourcing.

Get the full list: all 412 companies × 93 tools, with role counts and the public job post that evidences each mention (CSV). One-time snapshot, $49 · Weekly refresh, $99/mo (new roles every Monday; add up to 50 companies and 10 tools of your choice). 7-day refund.
CompanyRoles mentioning KubernetesOpen rolesExample job post
SpaceX1992742AI Engineer, Special Programs
CoreWeave121303Account Solution Architect
MongoDB93405Advisory Solutions Architect
Affirm71206Manager, Software Engineering (Marketplace Performance)
Crusoe70353Staff Product Security Engineer
Databricks68894Engineering Manager - Compute Infra
Datadog68438Commercial Sales Engineer 2 (AMER - West)
Airwallex65501Engineering Manager, Financial Platform
ClickHouse63197Senior Cloud Software Engineer - Efficiency Engineering
Okta63372Director, Engineering - Okta Integration Network
Anthropic55651Engineering Manager, Inference Infrastructure
Elastic54376Agentic AI Engineer
Fivetran52186Principal Software Engineer
Cloudflare45446IAM Security Engineer
Scale AI44183DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure & Security
Grafana Labs40114Engineering Manager - Observability | Germany | Remote
OpenAI40806Software Engineer, Scaled Abuse
Chainguard3977Commercial Account Executive - Benelux
GitLab39216Director of Engineering, Database Excellence
Snowflake39355Senior (Staff) Penetration Tester
Shield AI31611Cybersecurity Platform Engineer (R5531)
LangChain30102Senior Technical Support Engineer
Reddit30145Backend Engineer, IAM
Rocket Lab Corporation30585Data Engineering Intern
Braze29322Data Scientist II (AI Deployment)

245 more companies mention Kubernetes; they are in the full CSV.

Get the full list: all 412 companies × 93 tools, with role counts and the public job post that evidences each mention (CSV). One-time snapshot, $49 · Weekly refresh, $99/mo (new roles every Monday; add up to 50 companies and 10 tools of your choice). 7-day refund.