Senior Software Engineer (Rust) - remote in the EU

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who combines strong software architecture principles with understanding of Datacenter Networking and DPU architectures. Fitting into our T-shaped engineering model, you will drive the development of control planes powering high-density, high-throughput infrastructure for AI training and inference workloads. Familiarity with automated bare-metal provisioning and lifecycle management is a strong asset.

About Mirantis

Our engineering team builds next-generation, cloud-native bare-metal orchestration platforms for AI neo-cloud environments.

We operate on a T-shaped engineering model: while each engineer brings deep expertise in a primary domain, every team member maintains practical fluency across neighboring systems.

This shared foundation enables rigorous design reviews, effective cross-domain code reviews, and dependable on-call coverage.

Our development is fundamentally based on open-source projects, and contributing to them is a major part of our work.

We develop primary control plane software in Rust and Go, leverage Kubernetes operators, and foster an OpenTelemetry-first operational culture.

Mirantis is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications.

By combining open source innovation with deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, Mirantis empowers platform engineering teams to deliver composable, production-ready developer platforms across any environment—on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, or in sovereign data centers.

As enterprises navigate the growing complexity of AI-driven workloads, Mirantis delivers the automation, GPU orchestration, and policy-driven control needed to manage infrastructure with confidence and agility.

Committed to open standards and freedom from lock-in, Mirantis ensures that customers retain full control of their infrastructure strategy.

Mirantis serves many of the world’s leading enterprises, including Adobe, DocuSign, Liberty Mutual, PayPal, Reliance Jio, Societe Generale, Splunk, and Volkswagen.

Learn more at www.mirantis.com .

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade control plane microservices, custom Kubernetes operators, and robust reconciliation engines in Rust and Go.
• Author clear Functional (FR) and Non-Functional Requirements (NFR), architectural specs, system sequence diagrams, and clean gRPC/Protobuf and REST API schemas.
• Develop custom integration modules and integrations for modern network operating systems (SONiC, NVUE, Cumulus) and DPU hardware platforms.
• Instrument services end-to-end using OpenTelemetry (OTel) traces and metrics, performing systematic root-cause analysis across polyglot distributed systems.
• Participate in rigorous, review-gated pull request workflows across Rust, Go, and SQL codebases while ensuring high test coverage via mock-driven testing.
• Expertise in PXE/iPXE, UEFI, Secure Boot, measured boot, and TPM attestation.
• Proficiency in Redfish, IPMI, and BMC abstractions across heterogeneous hardware platforms (Dell, Lenovo, NVIDIA reference hardware).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience in cloud-native platforms or systems programming Primary mastery of Rust (Tokio async runtime, Tonic, Axum, sqlx) and proficiency in Go (secondary).
• Strong background in async concurrency models, lock-free patterns, distributed state handling, and mock-driven testing discipline.
• gRPC/Protobuf contract design (via tonic/prost) and schema evolution (using zero-copy serialization and compile-time type generation).
• Experience writing custom controllers/operators using kube-rs with CRD-driven reconciliation loop patterns.
• Commitment to test-driven design, writing highly testable code with mock interfaces for external service dependencies.
• Proven track record of writing crisp architectural specs and engaging in constructive, cross-functional design reviews.
• Understanding of InfiniBand fabrics, NVLink / NMX-M partitioning, and RoCEv2.
• Advanced grasp of Linux netlink, network namespaces, routing tables, and internal DHCP/DNS service implementations (the project ships its own services).
• In-depth knowledge of boot chains, systemd, initramfs, BIOS configuration matrices.
• Practical experience with PKI, X.509 certificates, TLS, SPIFFE/SVID, Vault, KMS, Keycloak (OAuth2/JWT), and RBAC.
• Experience with KubeVirt / KVM.
• Experience writing custom controllers/operators using kube-rs or controller-runtime with CRD-driven reconciliation loop patterns.
• Demonstrated participation or maintaining open-source systems projects

Preferred

• Advanced SQL / PostgreSQL fluency Datacenter Protocols & OS: Expertise in BGP, MP-BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, L3VNI, route targets, and route server design.
• Hands-on experience with SONiC, Cumulus Linux, and NVUE (featuring a first-class NVUE client).
• Deep knowledge of NVIDIA DOCA, Host-Based Networking (HBN), BlueField DPU architectures, and the DPF (DOCA Platform Framework) operator model (BFB, DPUSet, DPUNode CRDs).
• Familiarity with CNI plugins (Calico, Cilium).
• OVS and DPDK experience is a plus.

Kubernetes Control Planes

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