Mirantis

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

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23 hours 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 API schemas.
  • Develop integrations for SONiC, NVUE, Cumulus, 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.
  • Maintain high test coverage through mock-driven testing and highly testable interfaces for hardware and network dependencies.
  • Write architectural specifications and participate in cross-functional design reviews.
  • Contribute to open-source systems projects and provide on-call coverage across neighboring systems.

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.
  • Strong knowledge 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, and NVUE.
  • Deep knowledge of NVIDIA DOCA, Host-Based Networking, BlueField DPU architectures, and the DPF operator model.
  • Understanding of InfiniBand, NVLink, NMX-M partitioning, and RoCEv2.
  • Advanced Linux networking knowledge, including netlink, network namespaces, routing tables, and DHCP/DNS service implementations.
  • Familiarity with CNI plugins such as Calico and Cilium; OVS and DPDK experience is a plus.
  • Expertise in PXE/iPXE, UEFI, Secure Boot, measured boot, and TPM attestation.
  • Proficiency with Redfish, IPMI, and BMC abstractions across heterogeneous hardware platforms.
  • In-depth knowledge of boot chains, systemd, initramfs, and BIOS configuration matrices.
  • Practical experience with PKI, X.509 certificates, TLS, SPIFFE/SVID, Vault, KMS, Keycloak, OAuth2/JWT, and RBAC.
  • Experience with KubeVirt and KVM.
  • Experience writing custom Kubernetes controllers and operators with kube-rs or controller-runtime and 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 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.
  • Work with open-source cloud infrastructure and colleagues serving Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers.

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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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