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

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Czechia.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and sustain production-quality control-plane microservices, Kubernetes operators, and reconciliation engines utilizing Rust and Go.

• Create functional and non-functional requirements, architectural specifications, system sequence diagrams, and schemas for gRPC/Protobuf and REST APIs.

• Build integrations for SONiC, NVUE, Cumulus, and DPU hardware platforms.

• Implement service instrumentation using OpenTelemetry for traces and metrics.

• Conduct root-cause analysis in polyglot distributed systems.

• Engage in review-gated pull request workflows for Rust, Go, and SQL codebases.

• Maintain high test coverage through mock-driven testing practices.

• Lead control-plane development aimed at high-density, high-throughput AI training and inference infrastructure.

• Contribute to open-source initiatives and take part in cross-domain design and code review processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• In-depth expertise in Rust, particularly with the Tokio async runtime, Tonic, Axum, and sqlx.

• Solid proficiency in Go programming language.

• Advanced knowledge of SQL/PostgreSQL.

• Experience in designing gRPC/Protobuf contracts and managing schema evolution.

• Strong understanding of asynchronous concurrency models, lock-free patterns, distributed state management, and mock-driven testing methodologies.

• Specialized knowledge in BGP, MP-BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, L3VNI, route targets, and route server design.

• Practical experience with SONiC, Cumulus Linux, and NVUE platforms.

• Comprehensive understanding of NVIDIA DOCA, Host-Based Networking, BlueField DPU architectures, and DPF operator models.

• Familiarity with InfiniBand, NVLink/NMX-M partitioning, and RoCEv2.

• Advanced knowledge of Linux netlink, network namespaces, routing tables, and the implementation of DHCP/DNS services.

• Acquainted with Calico and Cilium CNI plugins.

• Expert in PXE/iPXE, UEFI, Secure Boot, measured boot, and TPM attestation.

• Proficient in Redfish, IPMI, and BMC abstractions.

• Extensive knowledge of boot chains, systemd, initramfs, and BIOS configuration matrices.

• Hands-on experience with PKI, X.509, TLS, SPIFFE/SVID, Vault, KMS, Keycloak, OAuth2/JWT, and RBAC.

• Familiarity with KubeVirt/KVM.

• Experience in developing Kubernetes controllers/operators using kube-rs or controller-runtime.

• Dedication to test-driven design and mock interface implementation.

• Proven experience in architectural specification and cross-functional design reviews.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience in cloud-native platforms, systems programming, networking, or infrastructure automation.

• Participation or maintainership in open-source systems projects is an advantage.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for professional development and training.

• Attendance at conferences and working groups.

• Company-sponsored outings, happy hours, hackathons, and tech discussions.

• Competitive compensation package complemented by a robust benefits plan.

• Availability of remote work options.