Open Source Engineering Lead for k0s

Join Mirantis as an Open Source Engineering Lead for k0s, a CNCF Kubernetes distribution. In this hands-on technical leadership role, you will inspire and manage a distributed team of experienced Kubernetes engineers and open source maintainers. You will establish technical direction, maintain a high engineering bar, ensure Kubernetes conformance, grow the contributor and maintainer community, and guide k0s through successive stages of CNCF project maturity.

Experience speaking at technical conferences, running workshops, producing technical content, or otherwise representing an open source project publicly

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a distributed team of engineers working on k0s, k0smotron, and related Kubernetes technologies.
• Provide technical direction for k0s and related projects while working collaboratively with maintainers and the broader community.
• Act as a senior maintainer and visible technical leader within the k0s and k0smotron open source communities.
• Demonstrated technical leadership in architecture, design reviews, mentoring, technical decision making, and driving complex engineering work to completion
• Strong experience with Go and the ability to review and contribute to production-quality Go code
• Experience working effectively through GitHub-based open source development workflows including issues, pull requests, reviews, CI, releases, and community discussions

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience designing, building, debugging, or operating Kubernetes infrastructure beyond simply consuming managed Kubernetes services
• Deep, hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes, its architecture, control plane, and the underlying Linux, container, networking, storage, and distributed-systems technologies

Strong written and verbal English communication skills

• Significant professional software engineering experience (10+ years desired), including experience leading senior engineers and open source development teams
• Ability to operate effectively in a globally distributed, asynchronous engineering organization
• Experience with Kubernetes Cluster API (CAPI) and Kubernetes controllers, operators, CRDs, or other Kubernetes-native control-plane software
• Existing maintainer, reviewer, or significant contributor experience in Kubernetes, CNCF, or another substantial open source infrastructure project
• Experience with Kubernetes cluster bootstrap, upgrades, lifecycle management, high availability, and conformance testing or certification
• Deep familiarity with Kubernetes internals such as etcd, containerd, kubelet, API machinery, CNI, and CSI
• Experience with k0s, k0smotron, or similar Kubernetes distributions and cluster lifecycle technologies
• Experience managing Kubernetes across bare metal, public cloud, edge, IoT, or heterogeneous infrastructure

Preferred

• Familiarity with emerging Kubernetes AI infrastructure requirements including accelerators, scheduling, networking, inference, and AI workload portability
• Experience with CNCF project governance, maturity reviews, maintainership, or community processes
• Experience with release management, vulnerability response, dependency management, or software supply-chain processes for open source infrastructure