Service Mesh Engineer

Job Summary

To support a growing team, the full-time remote Service Mesh Engineer will design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms primarily using Istio and Linkerd, focusing on secure service-to-service communication across Kubernetes environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and operate service mesh platforms primarily Istio and Linkerd across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments
• Implement and operate mTLS, certificate rotation, and identity propagation across the mesh
• Define traffic management policies including routing, retries, circuit breaking, and fault injection

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 configuration
• Deep Kubernetes expertise including networking, CNI, and ingress