Staff Software Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and take ownership of low-level systems across Fusion, Fusion Snapshots, Ignite, and Sched.

• Write dependable, thoroughly tested code primarily in Go and C, utilizing Rust and JVM technologies as needed.

• Work with FUSE filesystems, Linux namespaces, CRIU checkpoint/restore, process supervision, signal management, and static musl builds.

• Create multi-cloud orchestration and scheduling solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

• Construct provider abstractions, instance selection, autoscaling, spot-instance fault tolerance, and robust asynchronous queues.

• Lead performance engineering initiatives focused on chunked I/O, multi-level caching, buffer pools, and bandwidth management.

• Establish technical direction and elevate standards for testing, observability, and operational excellence.

• Mentor colleagues and facilitate the onboarding of new engineers.

• Provide support for adjacent services such as Groundswell and Cloudinfo.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in developing production-grade systems software, with technical ownership at the Staff level.

• Proficient in Go and comfortable with C or C++, with a close understanding of operating system concepts.

• Strong knowledge of Linux internals, including filesystems, namespaces, processes, signals, and networking.

• Experience in building distributed and/or cloud-native systems.

• Awareness of failure modes across various cloud platforms.

• Capability to write clear, well-structured, and well-tested code optimized for clarity and ease of debugging.

• Comfort in navigating ambiguity and driving independent work.

• Genuine willingness to engage in extensive daily use of AI tools.

• Experience with Go and C/C++ in the context of low-level systems software development.

• Familiarity with CRIU, checkpoint-restore processes, FUSE or filesystem/VFS work, Rust, JVM technologies, container runtimes, Docker internals, Kubernetes, HPC/Batch, applied ML/data engineering, or contributions to open-source systems is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours.

• An international working environment with over 25 nationalities.

• Opportunities for continuous skills development.

• Team retreats and bonding activities.

• Equity options.

• Private health insurance coverage.

• Private life insurance coverage.

• Home office allowance exceeding 1,000 USD.

• Subscription to the Oliva Mental Health App.

• Annual learning and development budget of 1,000 USD.

• 23 vacation days each year.

• An additional 3 days off provided by Seqera in December.

• National/public holidays observed according to your location.