Senior Software Engineer - Network Service Mesh (Remote)

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Network Service Mesh to join our dynamic team at Slack. This is a full-time remote position that offers the opportunity to lead the development of scalable, reliable, and secure service mesh infrastructure across our platform. You will enable seamless service-to-service communication, ensuring that our infrastructure supports over 14 million daily active users worldwide.

What You'll Do

• Lead the development of scalable, reliable, and secure service mesh infrastructure across our platform, enabling seamless service-to-service communication.
• Drive the execution for initiatives related to service discovery, observability, security (mTLS, policy enforcement), and traffic management (circuit breaking, graceful failovers, blue/green routing).
• Collaborate cross-functionally with the Compute, Security, and Monitoring teams to integrate service mesh capabilities into development and deployment workflows.
• Contribute to and/or extend open-source projects such as Istio, Linkerd, or Envoy to meet the evolving needs of our infrastructure.
• Mentor and guide engineers across teams, fostering knowledge sharing and elevating the overall technical capability of the organization.
• Continuously evaluate emerging technologies in the service mesh and cloud-native space, identifying opportunities for innovation and improvement.
• Take ownership of critical technical issues to maintain optimal service mesh operation, meeting or exceeding performance, reliability, and SLO targets.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on distributed systems, cloud-native applications, and microservices.
• Deep understanding of service mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd, or other Envoy-based service meshes.
• Hands-on experience with cloud providers such as GCP or AWS, with expertise in container orchestration using Kubernetes.
• Enjoy troubleshooting in distributed Linux systems environments and is comfortable tracing issues across applications, systems, and networks.
• Proven track record of building tools, automation, or services using one or more programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, Python, C/C++).
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; able to explain complex technical concepts to designers, support staff, and fellow engineers.

Nice to Have

• Experience with configuring and operating service mesh on larger-scale production operations, focusing on stability, scalability, and performance limits of web services.
• Experience with TCP/IP, DNS, and network-related protocols.
• Experience with Linux / Unix operating on high volume systems at scale.
• Experience running deployment automation/configuration management systems at scale - e.g., Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation or others.
• Certifications in Istio, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, and/or other technologies.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary ranging from $140,000 to $180,000 per year.
• Comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.
• Flexible remote work environment with a focus on work-life balance.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• A diverse and inclusive company culture that values collaboration and innovation.