Senior 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, develop, and sustain production-grade control plane microservices, custom Kubernetes operators, and reconciliation engines using Rust and Go.

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

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

• Implement service instrumentation with OpenTelemetry traces and metrics.

• Conduct systematic root-cause analysis across polyglot distributed systems.

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

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

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

• Contribute to open-source initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proficient in Rust, particularly with Tokio async runtime, Tonic, Axum, and sqlx.

• Strong skills in Go programming.

• Advanced proficiency in SQL / PostgreSQL.

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

• Robust 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, Host-Based Networking, BlueField DPU architectures, and DPF operator models.

• Familiarity with InfiniBand, 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.

• Expertise 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.

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

• Familiarity with KubeVirt / KVM.

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

• Commitment to test-driven design and developing highly testable code with mock interfaces.

• Proven history of drafting architectural specifications and engaging in 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.

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

• Experience with OVS and DPDK is an advantage.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for professional development and training.

• Participation in conferences and working groups.

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

• Competitive compensation package along with a comprehensive benefits plan.

• Availability of remote work options.