Service Mesh Engineer
100% Remote (Continental United States)Full-TimeMiddle
Salary100,000 - 150,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- PythonKubernetesGoNetworking
Requirements
- 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 configuration.
- Deep Kubernetes expertise including networking, CNI, and ingress.
- Strong understanding of mTLS, PKI, and certificate lifecycle management.
- Experience with distributed tracing and observability for mesh traffic.
- Proficiency in Go or Python for tooling and automation.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across networking, application, and control plane layers.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Responsibilities
- Design and operate service mesh platforms — primarily Istio and Linkerd — across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
- Implement and operate mTLS, certificate rotation, and identity propagation across the mesh.
- Define traffic management policies including routing, retries, circuit breaking, and fault injection.
- Integrate the mesh with ingress, egress, and API gateway tiers for unified traffic management.
- Build observability for mesh traffic including distributed tracing, golden signals, and topology visualization.
- Profile and optimize mesh performance, sidecar resource usage, and control-plane footprint.
- Develop paved-road adoption patterns and onboarding guides that make mesh adoption easy for app teams.
- Partner with SRE, platform, and security teams on mesh policy and incident response.
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