Service Mesh Engineer

Job Summary

To support a growing team, the full-time Service Mesh Engineer will design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms using Istio and Linkerd in a 100% remote environment, focusing on secure service-to-service communication within Kubernetes.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and operate service mesh platforms primarily Istio and Linkerd across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments
• Implement and manage mTLS, certificate rotation, and traffic management policies
• 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