Senior Software Engineer – Kubernetes / Distributed Systems
Buoyant, the company behind the CNCF-graduated Linkerd service mesh, is hiring a senior engineer to help build a new cloud-native infrastructure product. It's a hands-on, architecturally significant role on a small fully remote team, working deep in the Kubernetes ecosystem with Go and/or Rust, gRPC, and distributed control-plane systems.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- REMOTE – US / Canada / Brazil / Europe (CET-compatible)
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Senior, self-directed engineer
- Experience building production infrastructure software
- Comfortable working deep in the Kubernetes ecosystem
Nice to have
- Kubernetes APIs, controllers/operators, CRDs, reconciliation systems
- Distributed systems / control-plane engineering experience
- Go and/or Rust
- gRPC
- Networking
- Service mesh
- Security / identity
Full description
Buoyant | Senior Software Engineer – Kubernetes / Distributed Systems | REMOTE – US / Canada / Brazil / Europe (CET-compatible) | Full-timeBuoyant is the company behind Linkerd, the CNCF-graduated service mesh for Kubernetes. We’re a small, fully remote engineering team building a new cloud-native infrastructure product.We’re looking for a senior, self-directed engineer who has built production infrastructure software and is comfortable working deep in the Kubernetes ecosystem.Relevant experience may include Kubernetes APIs, controllers/operators, CRDs, reconciliation systems, distributed systems/control-plane engineering, Go and/or Rust, gRPC, networking, service mesh, security, identity, or other cloud infrastructure.This is a hands-on role with significant architectural ownership on a small engineering team.Location: Remote – US, Canada, South America, or Europe with Central European Time-compatible working hours.Interested? Email scott.deakin@buoyant.io with “HN – Buoyant Control Plane” in the subject and include your LinkedIn, GitHub, or résumé.