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This listing scored 52/100, which is a D. It lost the most ground on pay transparency.
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- Remote clarity 15 / 15 Whether "remote" means anywhere, or is quietly restricted to one country.
- Description depth 14 / 20 How much the posting actually says about the work, measured in characters of real text.
- Corroboration 5 / 10 Whether more than one source carries this listing.
- Role specificity 3 / 10 Whether the listing is tagged well enough to tell what the role actually is.
- Pay transparency 0 / 25 A published salary range, worth more than any other single factor because it is what a candidate cannot find out without applying.
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Distributed Systems| REMOTE – US / Canada / Brazil / Europe (CET-compatible) | Full-time
Buoyant is the company behind Linkerd, the CNCF-graduated service mesh for Kubernetes. We’re a small, fully remote engineering team building a new cloud-native infrastructure product.
We’re looking for a senior, self-directed engineer who has built production infrastructure software and is comfortable working deep in the Kubernetes ecosystem.
Relevant experience may include Kubernetes APIs, controllers/operators, CRDs, reconciliation systems, distributed systems/control-plane engineering, Go and/or Rust, gRPC, networking, service mesh, security, identity, or other cloud infrastructure.
This is a hands-on role with significant architectural ownership on a small engineering team.
Location: Remote – US, Canada, South America, or Europe with Central European Time-compatible working hours.
Interested? Email [email protected] with “HN – Buoyant Control Plane” in the subject and include your LinkedIn, GitHub, or résumé.
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