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

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Kazakhstan, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Design, construct, and manage production-quality control-plane microservices, bespoke Kubernetes operators, and reconciliation engines utilizing Rust and Go.

• Create Functional Requirements, Non-Functional Requirements, architectural specifications, system sequence diagrams, as well as gRPC/Protobuf and REST API schemas.

• Build tailored integration modules for SONiC, NVUE, Cumulus, and DPU hardware platforms.

• Implement end-to-end instrumentation of services using OpenTelemetry traces and metrics.

• Conduct thorough root-cause analysis across diverse distributed systems.

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

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

• Lead the development of control planes for high-density, high-throughput AI training and inference infrastructure.

• Contribute to open-source initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong expertise in Rust, including experience with Tokio async runtime, Tonic, Axum, and sqlx.

• Proficient in Go programming language.

• Advanced fluency in SQL / PostgreSQL.

• Experience in gRPC/Protobuf contract design and schema evolution.

• Solid understanding of async concurrency models, lock-free patterns, distributed state management, and mock-driven testing.

• In-depth knowledge of BGP, MP-BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, L3VNI, route targets, and route server design.

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

• Comprehensive knowledge of NVIDIA DOCA, HBN, BlueField DPU architectures, and the DPF operator model, including BFB, DPUSet, and DPUNode CRDs.

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

• Advanced understanding of Linux netlink, network namespaces, routing tables, and DHCP/DNS service implementations.

• Knowledge of CNI plugins such as Calico and Cilium.

• Experience with OVS and DPDK is an advantage.

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

• Proficient in Redfish, IPMI, and BMC abstractions across Dell, Lenovo, and NVIDIA reference hardware.

• Thorough understanding of boot chains, systemd, initramfs, and BIOS configuration matrices.

• Practical knowledge of PKI, X.509 certificates, TLS, SPIFFE/SVID, Vault, KMS, Keycloak, OAuth2/JWT, and RBAC.

• Experience with KubeVirt / KVM.

• Background in developing custom Kubernetes controllers/operators using kube-rs or controller-runtime with CRD-driven reconciliation patterns.

• Dedication to test-driven design and the creation of highly testable code with mock interfaces.

• Proven ability to author architectural specifications and engage in cross-functional design reviews.

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

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

• Demonstrated involvement or maintainership in open-source systems projects is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for professional development and training.

• Attendance at conferences and working groups.

• Company outings, happy hours, hackathons, and tech talks.

• Competitive compensation package with a robust benefits plan.

• Chance to collaborate with passionate, talented colleagues and Fortune 500 and Global 2000 clients.

• Involvement in pioneering, open-source innovation.

• High-energy environment that values openness, collaboration, risk-taking, and continuous growth.