Mirantis

Rust Senior Software Engineer – Bare Metal as a Service & Datacenter Networking

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2 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain production-grade control-plane microservices, custom Kubernetes operators, and reconciliation engines in Rust and Go.
  • Author functional and non-functional requirements, architectural specifications, system sequence diagrams, and gRPC/Protobuf and REST API schemas.
  • Develop integrations for SONiC, NVUE, Cumulus, modern network operating systems, and DPU hardware platforms.
  • Instrument distributed services with OpenTelemetry traces and metrics and perform root-cause analysis across polyglot systems.
  • Participate in review-gated pull requests across Rust, Go, and SQL codebases while maintaining high test coverage through mock-driven testing.
  • Contribute to open-source systems projects and participate in cross-functional architecture and design reviews.

Requirements

  • Primary mastery of Rust, including Tokio, Tonic, Axum, and sqlx, plus strong proficiency in Go.
  • Advanced SQL and PostgreSQL skills, including gRPC/Protobuf contract design and schema evolution.
  • Experience with asynchronous concurrency, lock-free patterns, distributed state handling, and mock-driven testing.
  • Expertise in BGP, MP-BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, L3VNI, route targets, route servers, SONiC, Cumulus Linux, and NVUE.
  • Deep knowledge of NVIDIA DOCA, Host-Based Networking, BlueField DPU architectures, DPF, BFB, DPUSet, and DPUNode CRDs.
  • Understanding of InfiniBand, NVLink, NMX-M partitioning, RoCEv2, Linux netlink, network namespaces, routing tables, DHCP/DNS services, and CNI plugins such as Calico and Cilium.
  • Experience or familiarity with OVS, DPDK, PXE, iPXE, UEFI, Secure Boot, measured boot, TPM attestation, Redfish, IPMI, BMCs, systemd, initramfs, and BIOS configuration.
  • Experience with PKI, X.509, TLS, SPIFFE/SVID, Vault, KMS, Keycloak, OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, KubeVirt, and KVM.
  • Experience writing Kubernetes controllers and operators using kube-rs or controller-runtime with CRD-driven reconciliation patterns.
  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least five years of software engineering experience in cloud-native platforms, systems programming, networking, or infrastructure automation.
  • Open-source systems project participation or maintainership is preferred.

Benefits

  • Work with an established Silicon Valley cloud-infrastructure leader and passionate colleagues serving Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers.
  • Work on open-source innovation and next-generation Kubernetes and AI infrastructure.
  • Professional development and training, conference and working-group attendance, hackathons, tech talks, company outings, and happy hours.
  • Competitive compensation package with a strong benefits plan.
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About Mirantis

501-1,000 employees

Mirantis builds Kubernetes-native infrastructure software and services for enterprises to run cloud, container, and AI workloads across on-premises, public cloud, and edge environments. It sells subscriptions, support, and managed services around products like Mirantis Kubernetes Engine and the Lens Kubernetes platform; the company acquired Docker Enterprise in 2019. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Campbell, California, Mirantis is privately held and an IREN company serving global enterprises.

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