Rust Software Engineer – Bare Metal Service & Datacenter Networking

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, Docu Sign, Liberty Mutual, Pay Pal, Reliance Jio, Societe Generale, Splunk, and Volkswagen.

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Control Plane Development:
Design, build, and maintain production-grade control plane microservices, custom Kubernetes operators, and robust reconciliation engines in Rust and Go. Architecture & API Design:
Author clear Functional (FR) and Non-Functional Requirements (NFR), architectural specs, system sequence diagrams, and clean gRPC/Protobuf and REST API schemas. Network Integration:
Develop custom integration modules and integrations for modern network operating systems (SONiC, NVUE, Cumulus) and DPU hardware platforms. Observability & Diagnostics:
Instrument services end-to-end using Open Telemetry (OTel) traces and metrics, performing systematic root-cause analysis across polyglot distributed systems. Quality & Engineering Excellence:
Participate in rigorous, review-gated pull request workflows across Rust, Go, and SQL codebases while ensuring high test coverage via mock-driven testing.

Language Proficiency:
Primary mastery of Rust (Tokio async runtime, Tonic, Axum, sqlx) and strong proficiency in Go. Data & APIs:
Advanced SQL / PostgreSQL fluency, gRPC/Protobuf contract design, and schema evolution. Concurrency & Reliability:
Strong background in async concurrency models, lock-free patterns, distributed state handling, and mock-driven testing discipline. Datacenter Protocols & OS:
Expertise in BGP, MP-BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, L3

VNI, route targets, and route server design. Hands-on experience with SONiC, Cumulus Linux, and NVUE (featuring a first-class NVUE client). DPU & Fabric Ecosystem:
Deep knowledge of NVIDIA DOCA, Host-Based Networking (HBN), Blue Field DPU architectures, and the DPF (DOCA Platform Framework) operator model (BFB, DPUSet, DPUNode CRDs). High-Performance Interconnects:
Understanding of Infini Band fabrics, NVLink / NMX-M partitioning, and RoCEv
2. Linux Kernel Networking:
Advanced grasp of Linux netlink, network name spaces, routing tables, and internal DHCP/DNS service implementations (the project ships its own services). Cloud & Kubernetes Networking:
Familiarity with CNI plugins (Calico, Cilium). OVS and DPDK experience is a plus. Provisioning & Boot Infrastructure:
Expertise in PXE/iPXE, UEFI, Secure Boot, measured boot, and TPM attestation. Hardware Management:
Proficiency in Redfish, IPMI, and BMC abstractions across heterogeneous hardware platforms (Dell, Lenovo, NVIDIA reference hardware). Linux Systems Internals:
In-depth knowledge of boot chains, systemd, initramfs, BIOS configuration matrices. Identity & Security:
Practical experience with PKI, X.509 certificates, TLS, SPIFFE/SVID, Vault, KMS, Keycloak (OAuth2/JWT), and RBAC. Virtualization:
Experience with Kube Virt / KVM. Kubernetes Control Planes:
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