Senior Software Engineer, Rust

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

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and sustain production-level control-plane microservices, custom Kubernetes operators, and reconciliation engines using Rust and Go.

• Draft functional and non-functional requirements, architectural specifications, system sequence diagrams, as well as gRPC/Protobuf and REST API schemas.

• Create custom integrations for contemporary network operating systems including SONiC, NVUE, and Cumulus, along with DPU hardware platforms.

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

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

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

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

• Contribute to open-source initiatives.

• Offer reliable on-call coverage and take part in design and cross-domain code evaluations.

⛳️ Requirements

• 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 or systems programming.

• Primary expertise in Rust, including Tokio async runtime, Tonic, Axum, and sqlx.

• Proficient in Go.

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

• Experience in gRPC/Protobuf contract design using tonic/prost.

• Knowledgeable in schema evolution utilizing zero-copy serialization and compile-time type generation.

• Experience in writing custom Kubernetes controllers/operators using kube-rs with CRD-driven reconciliation loops.

• Familiarity with test-driven design and highly testable code incorporating mock interfaces for external service dependencies.

• Proven track record in drafting architectural specifications and participating in cross-functional design reviews.

• Advanced fluency in SQL/PostgreSQL.

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

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

• Knowledge of NVIDIA DOCA, Host-Based Networking, BlueField DPU architectures, and the DPF operator model.

• Understanding of InfiniBand, NVLink/NMX-M partitioning, and RoCEv2.

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

• Familiarity with Calico and Cilium CNI plugins.

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

• Proficiency in Redfish, IPMI, and BMC abstractions.

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

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

• Familiarity with KubeVirt/KVM.

• Demonstrated involvement in or maintenance of open-source systems projects.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for professional development and training.

• Attend conferences and join working groups.

• Participate in company outings, happy hours, hackathons, and tech talks.

• Competitive compensation package accompanied by a comprehensive benefits plan.

• Flexible remote work arrangement.