Staff Full Stack Engineer, Buoyant

Salary not provided

React

Docker

Kubernetes

JavaScript

GraphQL

Rust

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

More information about location

Developer tooling for Kubernetes and cloud environments

Job no longer available

Developer tooling for Kubernetes and cloud environments

1-20 employees

B2BEnterpriseSaaSDevOpsCloud Computing

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

React

Docker

Kubernetes

JavaScript

GraphQL

Rust

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

More information about location

1-20 employees

B2BEnterpriseSaaSDevOpsCloud Computing

Company mission

Buoyant's mission is to make the fundamental tools for security and reliability of software freely available to every engineer in the world.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

This role calls for a staff-level, strongly self-motivated generalist who is unafraid to work across a wide variety of languages and environments; who can handle ambiguity, complexity, and fast-moving requirements; and who can demonstrate ownership, a bias to action, and the ability to ship it
Extensive experience in backend development in Go, including web-based SaaS applications and API design
Extensive experience working as part of a remote engineering team. This cannot be your first remote job
Experience being on-call, including handling production incidents and blameless postmortems
Strong familiarity with JavaScript, React, and frontend development
Strong attention to detail and commitment to delivering high-quality, user-friendly software
Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, GraphQL, and MaterialUI a plus

What the job involves

As a full stack engineer, you'll be a key member of our small (20 person) team
You’ll create, maintain, and improve a wide variety of projects, ranging from SaaS platforms that aggregate massive amounts of live data from customer environments, to data pipelines that process business-critical billing and reporting data, to our service mesh that runs in the critical datapath of customer applications
You'll work alongside some of the world's most talented software engineers and product designers
You will learn an incredible amount and you'll have the opportunity to make a profound impact not just on Buoyant but on people around the world
Buoyant is not a peace-time operation. We compete every day against behemoths with infinite resources, time, and people
Design, implement, maintain, and improve high-performance, customer-facing web applications; on-premises software that runs in customers' environments; build pipelines; data pipelines; and more
Write software in Go, JavaScript, and sometimes Rust
Collaborate with designers, product team, open source maintainers, software engineers, and SREs
Participate in the on-call rotation to support production systems running on Kubernetes

Our take

The adoption of cloud technology has dramatically changed the way businesses run. One major shift in this sphere has been the adoption of Kubernetes - the way to manage containers in aggregate. However, aligning Kubernetes with other computing challenges when dealing with complicated software environments can often be a challenge.

To this end, Buoyant developed Linkerd, a service mesh that delivers observability, security and reliability for your whole environment by sitting on top of Kubernetes. It was a pioneering technology that Buoyant has serviced into a full-scale service adopted by the likes of Microsoft, Nordstrom and Expedia.

There are a number of new features in the pipeline for Linkerd as the service mesh technology continues to add users. In 2022, Buoyant announced a managed service for Linkerd. There are also plans for additional security functionality.

While the startup has impressive levels of enterprise adoption, products like Istio are sometimes winning in greenfield environments. The challenge for Buoyant will be maintaining its market dominance in the face of new, stringent competition from these other service mesh providers.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Mar 2019

$10m

SERIES B

Jul 2017

$10.5m

SERIES A

Total funding: $24m

Company benefits

Remote first culture
Health, Dental, Vision and Disability insurance
401k
Unlimited PTO (We strongly encourage people to use it)
Home-office stipend

Company HQ

Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

William Morgan

(CEO)

Prior to founding Buoyant, he was an infrastructure engineer at Twitter, where he ran several teams building on product-facing backend infrastructure. He has worked at Powerset, Microsoft, adap.tv, and MITRE Corp, and has been contributing to open source for over 20 years.

Oliver Gould

(CTO)

Prior to founding Buoyant, he was a staff infrastructure engineer at Twitter, and the tech lead of the Observability, Traffic, and Configuration and Coordination teams.

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