Service Mesh Engineer

Job Summary

Seeking a full-time remote Service Mesh Engineer (Istio / Linkerd) to design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms that ensure secure and reliable service-to-service communication across Kubernetes environments while focusing on platform engineering and mesh adoption strategies.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and operate service mesh platforms primarily using Istio and Linkerd across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments
• Implement mTLS, certificate rotation, and traffic management policies including routing and fault injection
• Build observability for mesh traffic and optimize performance through systematic measurement and improvements

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Five or more years of experience in platform engineering, SRE, or networking roles
• Hands-on experience operating Istio or Linkerd in production
• Strong understanding of Envoy proxy internals and Kubernetes networking
• Proficiency in Go or Python for tooling and automation