Senior Software Engineer, Service Mesh

📋 Description

• Design and build the service mesh infrastructure across hybrid Kubernetes and Nomad.
• Drive integration of service mesh with Kubernetes, including sidecar injection, mTLS, traffic policies, and observability for production workloads.
• Build the networking foundation for Cloud Bursting, enabling on-prem to cloud bursts with service discovery, traffic management, and locality-aware routing.
• Partner with internal application teams to understand connectivity pain points and provide a frictionless paved road for thousands of developers.
• Collaborate with the Gateway and CNI teams to deliver a unified, multi-cluster service fabric that abstracts cluster and regional boundaries from developers.
• Serve as a primary escalation point for complex service mesh issues, troubleshooting Envoy sidecars, Istio control plane, and the underlying network stack.

🎯 Requirements

• A professional with 3+ years of experience in distributed systems, with strong expertise in service mesh technologies (Istio, Envoy, Consul, or Linkerd). You understand the tradeoffs of sidecar-based architectures at scale.
• Deeply knowledgeable of service mesh concepts: traffic management, service discovery, mTLS, observability, and routing policies.
• Experienced running Kubernetes in production and familiar with the K8s networking model.
• Comfortable working with Envoy proxy internals, xDS APIs, and control plane architectures.
• Excellent at designing large-scale distributed systems that span multiple clusters, regions, and runtime environments.
• Fluent in Go, C/C++, or Rust.

🎁 Benefits

• Equity compensation for all full-time employees.
• Onsite schedule: Tue-Thu; optional Mon/Fri presence.
• Equal employment opportunities and accommodations.