Remote Senior Kubernetes Control Plane Engineer (Go)

Buoyant; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Buoyant is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to design and build production-grade Kubernetes controllers and CRDs. You will work on reconciliation loops, API integrations, and distributed systems within a Kubernetes-native product environment.

Strong Go/Golang expertise (or Rust in a Kubernetes-native context) is required, with ownership of features from design through deployment. This role is fully remote across the United States, Canada, and South America, with overlap with

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Direct, hands-on experience developing production Kubernetes controllers/operators, CRDs, and reconciliation loops.
• Strong Go/Golang development experience, or equivalent Kubernetes-native product engineering experience in Rust.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes API machinery, watches/informers, desired-state reconciliation, and resource lifecycle management.
• Experience building, debugging, and maintaining distributed systems in production.
• Ownership of substantial software components from design through deployment.
• Rust experience is desirable but NOT required; strong Go developers with Kubernetes controller/operator background encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement production Kubernetes controllers, operators, CRDs, and reconciliation systems.
• Develop Kubernetes API integrations using Go and/or Rust.
• Build software for resource lifecycle management, watches/informers, and distributed infrastructure.
• Solve challenging problems involving networking, scalability, reliability, and security.
• Own engineering features from design through production.

Skills

Go/Golang development

Kubernetes controllers

Rust experience

Distributed systems

CRDs and reconciliation loops

Tools

Kubebuilder

controller-runtime

client-go

kube-rs

Job description

Buoyant is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to design and build production-grade Kubernetes controllers and CRDs. You will work on reconciliation loops, API integrations, and distributed systems within a Kubernetes-native product environment.

Strong Go/Golang expertise (or Rust in a Kubernetes-native context) is required, with ownership of features from design through deployment. This role is fully remote across the United States, Canada, and South America, with overlap with