Contract: Principal Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Upwork operates a robust Service Mesh ecosystem, enabling a decentralized application architecture designed to enhance security, resilience, observability, and control across applications. This approach leverages a data plane composed of application-level proxies to manage communication between distributed components and a control plane to oversee these proxies. It represents the evolution of microservices architectures, addressing the limitations of the traditional client library model, particularly the tight coupling of infrastructure concerns with application code. At the core of the Upwork’s Service Mesh lies the Kubernetes Orchestrator, specifically EKS, with Istio serving as the foundational mesh technology.

As a Principal Kubernetes Engineer you will lead the design, implementation, and optimization of our extensive Kubernetes-based infrastructure. You need to possess a deep understanding of kubernetes and its ecosystem, with proven expertise in architecting ...