Linkerd Control Plane Engineer

About the role

Buoyant, the company behind Linkerd, is hiring a Linkerd Control Plane Engineer to help build mission-critical cloud-native infrastructure used in production Kubernetes environments around the world.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on control plane development at the intersection of Kubernetes, distributed systems, APIs, networking, security, and cloud-native infrastructure. The role can be scoped at the Senior, Staff, or Principal level depending on background.

You will work on Linkerd open source and Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd, helping design and implement high-performance, scalable, reliable control plane systems. This is a strong fit for engineers who have deep Kubernetes experience, strong Go skills, technical leadership ability, and comfort owning complex infrastructure work in a small, remote-first engineering team.

This role is fully remote and based in the United States or Canada.