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Software DevelopmentCalifornia, United States11-50 Employees
Buoyant is a software development company based in San Francisco, California, that develops and maintains the Linkerd service mesh for cloud-native environments. Its offerings aim to embed security, reliability, and efficiency into network communications without requiring changes to application code or underlying networking configuration. The company highlights capabilities such as granular application-layer authorization, zero-trust enforcement, cross-cluster failover, and cost-aware multicluster routing. Its customers are enterprises adopting modern cloud-native architectures that need robust governance and resiliency for inter-service traffic. Buoyant operates in the software development and cloud-native security space, combining open-source Linkerd roots with an enterprise product strategy. In January 2026, Buoyant announced a partnership with TestifySec to accelerate FedRAMP Authorization for Kubernetes environments.