Senior Software Engineer – Kubernetes / Distributed Systems
Buoyant
- Where
- Remote · REMOTE – US / Canada / Brazil / Europe (CET-compatible) | Full-time Buoyant 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 engine
- Level
- Senior
- Salary
- not stated by the employer
- Technologies
- RustKubernetesgRPCDistributed systems
- First sniffed
- 08 Oct 2026 06:00 · open 10 days
- Last verified
- 18 Oct 2026 08:30 · still on the employer's site
- Source
- Company careers page via hackernews
Buoyant | Senior Software Engineer – Kubernetes / Distributed Systems | REMOTE – US / Canada / Brazil / Europe (CET-compatible) | Full-time Buoyant 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 [email protected] with “HN – Buoyant Control Plane” in the subject and include your LinkedIn, GitHub, or résumé.