Service Mesh Engineer

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Based in the United StatesFull-TimeSenior

Salary100,000 - 150,000 USD per year

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5+ years of experience in platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or networking roles
Hands-on production experience with Istio and/or Linkerd
Strong expertise in Kubernetes, including networking, CNI, ingress, and service discovery
Deep understanding of Envoy proxy architecture and traffic handling
Solid knowledge of mTLS, PKI, certificate rotation, and identity management
Experience building observability solutions for distributed systems (metrics, tracing, logging)
Proficiency in Go or Python for automation and tooling
Strong troubleshooting skills across network, application, and control-plane layers
Experience designing or operating multi-cluster or large-scale distributed environments is highly valued

Design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms (primarily Istio and Linkerd) across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments
Implement and manage mTLS, certificate lifecycle automation, and workload identity propagation
Define and enforce traffic management policies including routing, retries, circuit breaking, and fault injection
Integrate service mesh with ingress, egress, and API gateway layers to standardize traffic flows
Build and enhance observability for service-to-service communication using tracing, metrics, and topology insights
Develop secure zero-trust policies and service-level authorization mechanisms within the mesh
Lead mesh upgrades, control-plane lifecycle management, and configuration governance
Collaborate with SRE, platform, and security teams on incident response and production reliability
Create adoption frameworks, onboarding guides, and reusable patterns for application teams
Troubleshoot complex networking, identity, and performance issues across mesh components

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