Private cloud platform replacing VMware on existing infrastructure
Platform9 runs a Kubernetes- and OpenStack-heavy stack (Python, Go, Node.js, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana) to deliver private cloud control planes. The company is actively replacing VMware in customer deployments while building out Kubernetes product integrations and cloud-native tooling — a strategy that maps directly to their pain-point focus on vendor independence and simplifying legacy virtualization migration. Hiring is accelerating across engineering and support, signaling both product expansion and customer onboarding velocity.
Platform9 simplifies private cloud deployment by converting existing enterprise hardware into fully managed cloud infrastructure without vendor lock-in. Founded in 2013 by former VMware engineers, the company targets IT operations teams at large enterprises looking to migrate away from legacy virtualization platforms. The flagship product, Private Cloud Director, integrates with third-party storage and existing hardware while providing Kubernetes and OpenStack-based workload management. The company operates at significant scale—over 30,000 nodes run in production across customer environments—and operates globally with engineering and support teams distributed across the United States, India, and Romania.
Primary stack: Kubernetes, OpenStack, Python, Go, Node.js, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, RabbitMQ, and MySQL. Also uses VMware and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) for deployment and testing.
San Jose, California. The company was founded in 2013 and employs 51–200 people with distributed teams across the US, India, and Romania.
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