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-level control plane microservices, tailor-made 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 custom integration modules for contemporary network operating systems such as SONiC, NVUE, and Cumulus, alongside DPU hardware platforms.

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

• Conduct thorough root-cause analysis within polyglot distributed systems.

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

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

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

• Offer reliable on-call support.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong expertise in Rust (Tokio async runtime, Tonic, Axum, sqlx).

• Proficient in Go programming language.

• Advanced fluency in SQL/PostgreSQL.

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

• Solid background in async concurrency models, lock-free techniques, 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 understanding of NVIDIA DOCA, Host-Based Networking (HBN), BlueField DPU architectures, and the DPF operator model (BFB, DPUSet, DPUNode CRDs).

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

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

• Experience with CNI plugins (Calico, Cilium).

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

• Knowledgeable in Redfish, IPMI, and BMC abstractions across diverse hardware platforms.

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

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

• Familiarity with KubeVirt / KVM.

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

• Commitment 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.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for professional development and training.

• Participation in conferences and working groups.

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

• Competitive compensation package complemented by a robust benefits plan.

• Availability of remote work options.