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Salary: CAD 125,000 - 150,000 / annual
Tigera is hiring two Senior Software Engineers to join its mission to secure the next generation of agentic AI workloads running on Kubernetes and beyond. You will work on Lynx by Tigera, a platform that discovers agentic AI on any host and secures it through the kernel and gateway. This is a cutting-edge role focused on AI agent security, helping define what makes an agent an agent and building tools to distinguish AI agents from standard workloads while preventing them from going rogue.
You will work on the hardest parts of the stack: traffic interception, policy enforcement, and observability for agentic workloads. The tech stack includes eBPF, Go, Python, Cedar, agentgateway, OpenTelemetry, and ClickHouse. You'll take ideas from prototype to production quickly in a highly engineering-focused team that values diversity, collaboration, agility, and innovation.
Tigera is the pioneer behind Calico and Lynx, defining the future of AI agent security, workload governance, and cloud-native networking. The company safeguards over 1 million Kubernetes clusters across multicloud and hybrid environments and is trusted by world-class innovation leaders including NVIDIA, Royal Bank of Canada, Bloomberg, Chipotle, GoDaddy, and Upwork.
The role is based in Vancouver on a hybrid basis. Tigera has offices in San Francisco, San Jose, Vancouver (Canada), Cork (Ireland), and London (England).
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years as a software engineer with a track record of shipping and supporting production code
- Strong proficiency in one or more of Go, C/C++, Rust, or Python
- Solid working knowledge of Kubernetes and containers, including how workloads are deployed, networked, and secured
- Understanding of Linux systems and networking outside Kubernetes (hosts, VMs, cloud infrastructure)
- Thrives on fast iteration and MVP work; comfortable with hard, open-ended technical problems
- Comfortable owning features end-to-end in a fast-moving, early-stage product environment
- CS degree or equivalent practical experience
NICE-TO-HAVES:
- Expertise in proxy or service mesh technologies such as Envoy and/or Istio, including Kubernetes Gateway API or AI Gateway implementations
- Experience building detection, discovery, or asset inventory systems such as traffic analysis, workload fingerprinting, or runtime telemetry
- Experience with eBPF or other kernel-level observability
- Experience with AI/ML systems, data pipelines, analytics, or modeling
- Familiarity with emerging agent protocols such as MCP (Model Context Protocol) and A2A (Agent-to-Agent)
- Background in cloud-native security, zero-trust networking, or workload identity (e.g., SPIFFE/SPIRE)
- Open source contributions in the cloud-native ecosystem
