Rust Senior Software Engineer – Bare Metal as a Service & Datacenter Networking

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Responsibilities

• ▹Design, build and maintain production-grade control-plane microservices, custom Kubernetes operators and reconciliation engines in Rust and Go
• ▹Author functional and non-functional requirements, architectural specs, system sequence diagrams, and gRPC/Protobuf and REST API schemas
• ▹Develop custom integration modules for network operating systems (SONiC, NVUE, Cumulus) and DPU hardware platforms
• ▹Instrument services end-to-end with OpenTelemetry traces and metrics, and perform systematic root-cause analysis
• ▹Participate in review-gated pull request workflows across Rust, Go and SQL codebases, with high test coverage via mock-driven testing

Requirements

• ▹Primary mastery of Rust (Tokio async runtime, Tonic, Axum, sqlx) and strong proficiency in Go
• ▹Advanced SQL/PostgreSQL fluency, gRPC/Protobuf contract design and schema evolution
• ▹Strong background in async concurrency models, lock-free patterns and distributed state handling
• ▹Knowledge of datacenter protocols and operating systems: BGP, MP-BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, L3VNI, route targets, route server design; SONiC, Cumulus Linux, NVUE
• ▹Knowledge of the DPU and fabric ecosystem: NVIDIA DOCA, Host-Based Networking, BlueField DPU architectures, the DPF operator model
• ▹Understanding of high-performance interconnects: InfiniBand, NVLink/NMX-M, RoCEv2
• ▹Advanced Linux kernel networking: netlink, network namespaces, routing tables, internal DHCP/DNS services
• ▹Kubernetes networking: CNI plugins (Calico, Cilium)
• ▹Expertise in PXE/iPXE, UEFI, Secure Boot, measured boot and TPM attestation for provisioning and boot infrastructure

Nice to have

• ▹OVS and DPDK experience

About the company

Mirantis's team builds cloud-native bare-metal orchestration platforms for AI neo-cloud environments, using a T-shaped engineering model with a strong open-source foundation.