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Buoyant — Senior Software Engineer, Kubernetes Control Plane

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Senior Software Engineer — Kubernetes Control Plane (Go/Rust)

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 Kubernetes controllers/operators, CRDs, and reconciliation loops using Go and/or Rust.

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

Please complete the short application below and upload your resume. Applications are reviewed based on relevant engineering experience.

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Have you personally developed production Kubernetes controllers/operators, including Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and reconciliation loops?

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Was the Kubernetes controller/operator software you personally developed part of a commercial software product used by external customers, or was it built for internal company infrastructure?

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Briefly describe a Kubernetes controller or operator you personally developed. What did it do? (Optional — 1–2 sentences)