Mirantis

Senior Software Engineer (Rust) - remote in the EU

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5 hours ago
Remote, EMEA or Barcelona, SpainSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain 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.
  • Design gRPC/Protobuf and REST APIs with schema evolution and compile-time type generation.
  • 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.
  • Write Rust, Go, and SQL code in review-gated workflows with high test coverage and mock-driven testing.
  • 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 or systems programming.
  • Primary expertise in Rust, including Tokio, Tonic, Axum, and sqlx, with proficiency in Go.
  • Strong knowledge of async concurrency, lock-free patterns, distributed state handling, and mock-driven testing.
  • Experience designing gRPC/Protobuf contracts with tonic/prost and applying schema evolution techniques.
  • Experience writing Kubernetes controllers or operators with kube-rs or controller-runtime and CRD-driven reconciliation loops.
  • Advanced SQL and PostgreSQL fluency is desired.
  • Expertise or familiarity with datacenter networking, including BGP, MP-BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, L3VNI, route targets, and route servers.
  • Experience with SONiC, Cumulus Linux, NVUE, NVIDIA DOCA, Host-Based Networking, BlueField DPUs, and the DPF operator model is desired.
  • Knowledge of InfiniBand, NVLink, NMX-M partitioning, RoCEv2, Linux netlink, network namespaces, routing tables, CNI plugins, PXE/iPXE, UEFI, Secure Boot, measured boot, TPM attestation, Redfish, IPMI, BMCs, Linux boot chains, systemd, initramfs, and BIOS configuration is desired.
  • Experience with PKI, X.509, TLS, SPIFFE/SVID, Vault, KMS, Keycloak, OAuth2, JWT, RBAC, KubeVirt, or KVM is desired.
  • OVS and DPDK experience is a plus.
  • Proven ability to write clear architectural specifications and participate constructively in design reviews.
  • Demonstrated participation in or maintenance of open-source systems projects.

Benefits

  • Remote position in the EU.
  • 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 passionate colleagues serving large enterprise customers.
Mirantis

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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