We're looking for a staff-level frontend engineer to join our small but mighty remote-only company. Our software powers the production Kubernetes infrastructure of companies around the world, and you'll work alongside some of the world's best engineers and on some of the world's most interesting distributed systems to accomplish our ambitious mission.

As a frontend engineer, you'll be a key member of our small (20 person) team. You’ll create, maintain, and improve the UI and UX of customer-critical products, ranging from SaaS platforms that aggregate massive amounts of live data from customer environments, to dashboards that run in customer environments, to internal dashboards and tools for sales and customer success teams. 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. This role calls for a staff-level, strongly self-motivated frontend expert who is unafraid to own large pieces of customer-facing functionality; who can handle ambiguity, complexity, and fast-moving requirements; and who can demonstrate ownership, a bias to action, and the ability to ship it. But Buoyant is a team, not a group of individuals, so you must balance this with collaboration, pragmatism, and low-ego teamwork.

We are a remote-only company that relies heavily on writing to communicate ideas. This role requires excellent written communication skills.

We are Buoyant

Our mission is to build a world where people can trust the systems that permeate their lives, by making security and reliability the default for all software. Our open source service mesh, Linkerd, defined the service mesh category itself, spawning a host of competitors and imitators. Our commercial Linkerd distribution, Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd, powers Kubernetes applications at Fortune 500 companies and household names.

We are a small, hungry, efficient team who competes every day against behemoths with infinite resources, time, and people. We are scrappy and creative; we prioritize ruthlessly; and we believe, at our very core, that solving concrete, tangible, and immediate problems for customers is the foundation of any successful business.

We are a remote-only company that hires around the world. Timezones are critical for collaboration. Please see the timezone requirements for this role.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, maintain, and improve highly performance frontends for customer-facing web applications and on-premises software that runs in customers' environments, ensuring that they are performant, scalable, and aligned with modern best practices.

• Collaborate with design and product teams to drive entire product development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, prototyping, implementation, testing, release, and documentation.

• Translate user feedback and requirements into intuitive and responsive product features, with a focus on delivering an exceptional user experience.

• Collaborate with designers, product team, open source maintainers, software engineers, and SREs.

• Collaborate with the customer success team to diagnose, triage, and resolve customer issues.

• Participate in the on-call rotation to support customer-facing SaaS applications.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building web-based SaaS applications.

• Extensive experience with React and proficiency with modern JavaScript tooling including webpack, Babel, Yarn, and ESLint.

• Strong experience with GraphQL and Material UI

• 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 attention to detail and commitment to delivering high-quality, user-friendly software.

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Auth0, Google Sign-In, etc, a plus.

Buoyant is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against applicants because of race, religion, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, military status, or any other characteristic protected by local law or ordinance.