# Senior Software Engineer – Kubernetes / Distributed Systems at Buoyant

- Company: Buoyant
- Status: Open
- Workplace: Remote
- Location: See post
- Level: Senior
- Discipline: DevOps & SRE
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-10-07
- Skills: Kubernetes, Linkerd
- Apply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996914

## Description

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 scott.deakin@buoyant.io with “HN – Buoyant Control Plane” in the subject and include your LinkedIn, GitHub, or résumé.

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