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Buoyant — Senior Software Engineer, Rust Data Plane / Networking

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Senior Software Engineer — Rust Data Plane / Networking

Remote: United States, Canada, or South America ONLY

Thank you for your interest in Buoyant, the company behind Linkerd and Kinference.

This position requires hands-on experience developing production networking or data-plane software that processes, proxies, forwards, routes, or otherwise handles live network traffic.

Production Rust is strongly preferred, but exceptional C/C++ networking and systems engineers are also encouraged to apply.

Important: This is a software product engineering position, not a DevOps, SRE, network operations, or Kubernetes administration role.

Please complete the brief application below and upload your resume.

Full Name

Email Address

LinkedIn Profile, GitHub, or Personal Website URL (Optional)

Where are you currently located?

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Have you personally designed and developed production networking or data-plane software that processes, proxies, forwards, routes, or otherwise handles live network traffic?

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Which best describes your professional systems programming experience?

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Briefly describe a production networking, proxy, or data-plane component you personally developed. What did it do? (Optional — 1–2 sentences)