Mirantis

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

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6 days ago
Remote, Czechia or Prague, CzechiaSenior

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 services with OpenTelemetry traces and metrics and perform root-cause analysis across distributed systems.
  • Participate in review-gated pull request workflows across Rust, Go, and SQL codebases while maintaining high test coverage.
  • Contribute to open-source systems projects and participate in architecture and cross-functional design reviews.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 5 years of software engineering experience in cloud-native platforms, systems programming, networking, or infrastructure automation.
  • Primary mastery of Rust, including Tokio, Tonic, Axum, and sqlx, with strong proficiency in Go.
  • Advanced SQL and PostgreSQL knowledge, including gRPC/Protobuf contract design and schema evolution.
  • Strong understanding of asynchronous concurrency, lock-free patterns, distributed state handling, and mock-driven testing.
  • Expertise in BGP, MP-BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, L3VNI, route targets, and route server design.
  • Hands-on experience with SONiC, Cumulus Linux, NVUE, NVIDIA DOCA, Host-Based Networking, BlueField DPUs, and DPF operator models.
  • 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.
  • Expertise in PXE/iPXE, UEFI, Secure Boot, measured boot, TPM attestation, Redfish, IPMI, BMC abstractions, boot chains, systemd, initramfs, and BIOS configuration.
  • Practical experience with PKI, X.509, TLS, SPIFFE/SVID, Vault, KMS, Keycloak, OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, KubeVirt, and KVM.
  • Experience writing custom Kubernetes controllers and operators with kube-rs or controller-runtime and CRD-driven reconciliation patterns.
  • Demonstrated participation in or maintainership of open-source systems projects is preferred; OVS and DPDK experience is a plus.

Benefits

  • Professional development and training.
  • Opportunities to attend conferences and working groups.
  • Company outings, happy hours, hackathons, and tech talks.
  • Competitive compensation package with a strong benefits plan.
  • Collaborative work with colleagues and customers on open-source cloud infrastructure innovation.

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