Open Source Engineering Lead

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🇫🇮 Finland – Remote

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Mirantis

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501 - 1000 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Mirantis is a company that specializes in container management and cloud infrastructure solutions. It offers a range of products, including Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE), Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK), and Mirantis Container Cloud (MCC), which provide enterprise-level Kubernetes and container management platforms. Mirantis also develops tools for secure software supply chains, such as the Mirantis Container Runtime (MCR) and Mirantis Secure Registry (MSR). As an advocate for open source technologies, Mirantis supports various projects and provides resources like Lens Desktop, a popular Kubernetes IDE, and technical support for enterprises adopting cloud-native technologies. Their solutions cater to sectors such as public services, financial services, and broader SaaS and technology services industries.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and develop a distributed engineering team working on k0s, k0smotron, and related Kubernetes technologies • Establish engineering priorities, ownership, and expectations while enabling experienced engineers to solve complex problems autonomously • Conduct regular 1:1s, provide feedback, support career development, and participate in hiring and onboarding • Build a culture of technical excellence, pragmatism, transparency, collaboration, and ownership • Develop technical leaders and maintainers so project knowledge and ownership are distributed across the team and community • Provide technical direction for k0s and related projects in collaboration with maintainers and the broader community • Participate in architecture and design discussions, code and pull-request reviews, issue triage, debugging, and technical decision making • Track upstream Kubernetes development and incorporate relevant capabilities, architectural changes, deprecations, and requirements into the k0s roadmap • Drive quality across testing, CI/CD, release engineering, upgradeability, security, observability, performance, and operational reliability • Balance architectural improvement and technical debt against features, community needs, ecosystem evolution, and Mirantis product requirements • Act as a senior maintainer and visible technical leader within the k0s and k0smotron open source communities • Help advance k0s through CNCF maturity from Sandbox through Incubation toward Graduation • Grow participation outside Mirantis, develop contributors into maintainers, cultivate adopters, and strengthen vendor-neutral governance • Represent k0s and k0smotron across Kubernetes and CNCF ecosystems, conferences, workshops, podcasts, webinars, and other technical venues • Develop relationships with upstream Kubernetes developers, Cluster API maintainers, CNCF projects, vendors, and adopters • Collaborate with product, architecture, field engineering, support, community, and engineering teams, including k0rdent, MOSK, and MKE • Translate production experience and customer requirements into upstream capabilities while preserving sound open source architecture • Determine whether capabilities belong in k0s, another upstream project, or existing ecosystem technologies • Maintain architectural relationships among k0s, k0smotron, Cluster API, k0rdent, and the broader Kubernetes ecosystem • Serve as a Kubernetes and open source subject-matter expert within Mirantis

🎯 Requirements

• Significant professional software engineering experience (10+ years desired), including experience leading senior engineers and open source development teams • Deep, hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes, its architecture, control plane, and underlying Linux, container, networking, storage, and distributed-systems technologies • Experience designing, building, debugging, or operating Kubernetes infrastructure beyond consuming managed Kubernetes services • Strong experience with Go and ability to review and contribute to production-quality Go code • Experience with GitHub-based open source development workflows, including issues, pull requests, reviews, CI, releases, and community discussions • Demonstrated technical leadership in architecture, design reviews, mentoring, technical decision making, and complex engineering delivery • Strong written and verbal English communication skills • Ability to work effectively in a globally distributed, asynchronous engineering organization • Existing maintainer, reviewer, or significant contributor experience in Kubernetes, CNCF, or another substantial open source infrastructure project (strongly preferred) • Experience with Kubernetes Cluster API (CAPI), Kubernetes controllers, operators, CRDs, or Kubernetes-native control-plane software (strongly preferred) • Experience with Kubernetes cluster bootstrap, upgrades, lifecycle management, high availability, and conformance testing or certification (strongly preferred) • Familiarity with etcd, containerd, kubelet, API machinery, CNI, and CSI (strongly preferred) • Experience with k0s, k0smotron, or similar Kubernetes distributions and cluster lifecycle technologies (strongly preferred) • Experience managing Kubernetes across bare metal, public cloud, edge, IoT, or heterogeneous infrastructure (strongly preferred) • Familiarity with Kubernetes AI infrastructure requirements, including accelerators, scheduling, networking, inference, and AI workload portability (strongly preferred) • Experience with CNCF project governance, maturity reviews, maintainership, or community processes (strongly preferred) • Experience speaking at technical conferences, running workshops, producing technical content, or representing an open source project publicly (strongly preferred) • Experience with release management, vulnerability response, dependency management, or software supply-chain processes for open source infrastructure (strongly preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time employment • Opportunity to lead development of a real Kubernetes distribution • Direct work with Kubernetes internals and cloud-native ecosystem projects • Influence over the technical direction of k0s, k0smotron, and surrounding ecosystems • Upstream contributions and participation in CNCF and Kubernetes communities • Representation of the project at major cloud-native conferences and technical forums • Opportunity to solve infrastructure problems across cloud, bare metal, edge, platform engineering, AI infrastructure, and large-scale Kubernetes environments • Globally distributed, asynchronous engineering organization • Career development support and mentorship opportunities