Open to candidates across North America, LATAM.
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Open to candidates across North America, LATAM.
“REMOTE: United States, Canada, or South America ONLY”
Remote across United States, Canada, or South America.
- Async-first
- The listing doesn't promise async-first working.
- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- No home office or equipment budget mentioned.
- Annual retreat
- No company-paid get-togethers mentioned.
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About the role
In this role, you will work on the core control plane architecture that powers Linkerd and Buoyant's commercial offerings. You will design reliable, high-performance distributed systems in Go that integrate deeply with Kubernetes primitives and APIs.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, and maintain Kubernetes control plane components using Go
- Ensure high performance, scalability, and reliability of service mesh control plane architecture
- Collaborate with open source contributors and the broader Linkerd community
- Troubleshoot complex distributed systems issues and optimize Kubernetes controller performance
What you bring
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Demonstrated experience designing and maintaining production Kubernetes control plane components or controllers
- Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) and concurrent programming
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and Kubernetes internals
About Buoyant
Buoyant is the creator of Linkerd, the lightweight and ultra-fast service mesh for Kubernetes, focused on making cloud-native applications secure and reliable.
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