What You'll Be Doing

• Work on delivering the roadmap together with the team
• Develop and review high-quality Go and eBPF code for Cilium open-source and Enterprise edition codebases
• Collaborate on architecture and design of distributed systems such as working on cluster mesh
• Integrate with traditional datacenter networking protocols
• Contribute to and uphold engineering best practices, code quality, and operational excellence

Requirements

• Strong communication skills and proven ability to work in collaborative environments
• Experience with Go, Rust, C, C++, Zig, or other systems programming languages
• Professional software engineering experience with a desire to write high quality and efficient code
• Familiarity with Linux, networking, and distributed systems

Nice to Haves

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Experience with Go and/or eBPF
• Experience in cloud native datacenter networking
• Experience managing production Kubernetes clusters, applying SRE principles, and using infrastructure automation tools
• Experience writing code to interact with Kubernetes
• Experience with Cilium and/or other CNIs (Container Network Interfaces)
• Open-source contributions in relevant projects