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, bespoke Kubernetes operators, and reconciliation engines using Rust and Go.

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

• Build custom integration modules for network operating systems, including SONiC, NVUE, and Cumulus, along with DPU hardware platforms.

• Implement end-to-end service instrumentation utilizing OpenTelemetry traces and metrics.

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

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

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

• Contribute to open-source initiatives.

• Take part in design reviews and offer cross-domain code reviews, along with on-call support.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience.

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering within cloud-native platforms or systems programming.

• Proficient in Rust, including mastery of Tokio async runtime, Tonic, Axum, and sqlx.

• Strong skills in Go programming.

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

• Experience in designing gRPC/Protobuf contracts using tonic/prost and schema evolution with zero-copy serialization and compile-time type generation.

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

• Commitment to test-driven design and the creation of highly testable code with mock interfaces for external service dependencies.

• Demonstrated ability to write architectural specifications and engage 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.

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

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

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

• Experience with 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.

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

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

• Experience with KubeVirt/KVM.

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

• Experience with OVS and DPDK is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Employees have the option to work remotely.

• Opportunity to work in an open-source development environment.

• Exposure to cutting-edge cloud-native AI infrastructure.

• Participate in cross-domain code reviews and rely on dependable on-call coverage.