Software Engineer, Open Source Contributor

September 10

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Mirantis

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Cloud Computing • Enterprise • SaaS

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.

501 - 1000 employees

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

📋 Description

• Work with senior developers to learn best practices, coding standards, and modern development techniques. • Participate in open source communities to build relationships, resolve issues, and contribute to software solutions. • Collaborate with internal development and product management teams to integrate open source contributions into our products and services. • Assist in ensuring that all open source contributions meet high standards of code quality, testing, documentation, and maintainability. • Help design, develop, and maintain features and services using Python and Golang. • Actively contribute to and maintain open-source projects, learning from and enhancing the community. • Develop your expertise in cloud-native architectures, containerization, orchestration, and other modern technologies.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience in software development with a focus on Python and/or Golang. • Basic problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot issues. • A strong interest in open source best practices, including code quality, testing, and documentation. • Experience and understanding of how to leverage AI-powered co-development tools such as Cursor IDE, Claude Code, Cline, Aider.Chat or similar. • Willingness to learn about scale-out cloud-native architectures such as parallel computing (e.g., goroutines), Kubernetes clusters, and distributed systems. • Interest in developing and maintaining APIs using JSON and YAML. • Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes for deploying, managing, and scaling microservices. • Eagerness to gain knowledge in Kubernetes, including Cluster API, CNI, CSI, Telemetry, k0s, k0smotron. • Strong communication and collaboration skills. • Highly Desirable: Participation in open source projects as a contributor or maintainer. • Highly Desirable: Experience with Agile development methodologies and version control systems like Git. • Highly Desirable: Familiarity with DevOps practices and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. • Highly Desirable: Foundational understanding of AI infrastructure: inferencing, Agentic workflows, autonomous AI agents, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), serverless AI functions, and related. • Highly Desirable: Polyglot with little or no bias for specific programming languages.

🏖️ Benefits

• Receive a competitive compensation package with strong benefits plan.