Mirantis provides software and services for the open source cloud operating system OpenStack. The privately owned global company builds and manages open cloud infrastructure that e
Senior Golang Engineer, Backend
Location
Finland
Posted
22 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Golang Engineer, Backend
Mirantis
• Design, architect, implement, review, and test frameworks, libraries, tools, and services primarily using Go. • Participate in requirement, design, planning, and retrospective meetings as an integral part of an Agile software development team. • Contribute to successful sprints by implementing items contributing to overall team goals. • Act as a subject matter expert and evangelist within the company and broader community. • Be an active maintainer of Mirantis projects by managing contributions and patches to open-source projects, reviewing submissions, and participating in design decisions. • Participate in product discussions, influence the roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects to make them happen. • Be the technical reference to external partners and in-house engineering teams, provide support by sharing knowledge and/or taking on the development effort. • Contribute to testing via automation and test plan reviews to prevent bugs from entering the product and eliminate regressions, ensuring a quality product every build. • Ensure that MSR continues to be a first-class and indispensable part of diverse customer solutions, working seamlessly with existing systems including popular orchestrators and other industry-standard components.
Job Requirements
- Bachelors or Masters degree or equivalent in computer science or a related subject
- Debugging: Particularly multi-process, orchestrated, distributed systems
- Knowledge of the creation and use of containerization, Kubernetes, and Registries (Harbor preferred)
- 5+ years development experience in a Linux or other Unix-like environment
- 3+ years of experience with Go programming language or any other modern programming language that builds applications to production
- Contributions to open-source Kubernetes or Go tooling projects.
- Certifications such as CKA, CKAD, or DCA.
- Experience with additional languages: Shell scripting, Python
- Experience with container registries (Harbor/MSR), OCI specs, Docker and/or Swarm.
- Karpathy-7 familiarity is a plus
Benefits
- Work in a global, collaborative, remote-first culture that rewards initiative and execution.
- Play a pivotal role in shaping the next era of cloud and AI modernisation.
- Manage high-impact enterprise accounts with immediate opportunity for growth.
- Work with exceptionally passionate, talented and engaging colleagues, helping Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers implement next-generation cloud technologies.
- Be a part of cutting-edge, open-source innovation.
- Thrive in the high-energy environment of a young company where openness, collaboration, risk-taking, and continuous growth are valued.
- Professional development and training.
- Attend conferences and working groups.
- Customized workstation (macOS, Windows).
- Competitive compensation, performance incentives, and opportunities for advancement.
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