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Buoyant

Buoyant is the company behind Linkerd, the CNCF-graduated Kubernetes service mesh, and Kinference, a Kubernetes-native AI inference solution.

We build cloud-native infrastructure software that helps organizations operate distributed applications with greater reliability, security, and performance.

Our engineering team works on challenging problems involving Kubernetes, distributed systems, networking, service meshes, and high-performance infrastructure software.

We're a privately held, profitable software company with a small, experienced engineering team. Engineers have the opportunity to take significant ownership of product architecture and development, contribute to open-source technologies, and build production software used by organizations worldwide.

05 Nov, 2026
Full time
Senior Software Engineer — Kubernetes Control Plane (Go and/or Rust)
Buoyant Remote (United States, Canada, or South America)
Senior Software Engineer — Kubernetes Control Plane (Go and/or Rust) Fully Remote — United States, Canada, or South America ONLY Experience: 7+ years About Buoyant Buoyant is a privately held, profitable software company and the creator of Linkerd, the CNCF-graduated Kubernetes service mesh used in production environments worldwide. We're expanding our engineering team to build new cloud-native infrastructure products, including Kinference, our Kubernetes-native AI inference control plane. You'll join a small, experienced engineering team working on Kubernetes, distributed systems, networking, and cloud-native infrastructure software, with significant architectural ownership. The Opportunity We're seeking experienced software engineers who have personally designed and developed production Kubernetes controllers/operators, Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), and reconciliation loops. This is a hands-on Kubernetes-native software product...
Job Level:
Senior