Requirements
- 6+ years of large-scale production systems running Kubernetes with security as a first principle
- Strong experience with Kubernetes patterns and APIs, having written custom resources, controllers, and preferably exposure to kubebuilder
- Strong experience with distributed systems design, security, auth, consensus algorithms, async reconciliation, and fault tolerance
- Experience modeling data in Kubernetes, or transferable knowledge from RDBMS, GraphQL, information retrieval
- Extensive experience with multi-cloud networking and hybrid cloud connectivity
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes networking, CNI plugins, and service mesh architectures
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Flux, Terraform, Pulumi) for provisioning
- Understanding of edge computing, CDN architectures, and global traffic management
- Track record of contributing to or maintaining networking-focused open-source projects
- Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical decision-making in teams
- Understanding of open-source governance, community building, and public development
- Passion for building networking tools that other developers and operators love to use
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with SRv6, eBPF, DPDK, VPP, mpTCP and other advanced networking technologies
