Service Mesh Engineer

Job Summary

Seeking a skilled Service Mesh Engineer (Istio/Linkerd) for a full-time remote position, responsible for designing, deploying, and operating service mesh platforms across Kubernetes environments, focusing on secure service communication and performance optimization.

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 partner with SRE and security teams on mesh policy and incident response

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