Staff Software Engineer

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Staff Software Engineer

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced software engineer to help us improve and enhance project Harvester and Longhorn.

Harvester is an open-source hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software. It's powered by cutting-edge cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, KubeVirt, and Longhorn. It's an open-source alternative to vSphere and Nutanix.

Longhorn is an open-source cloud-native storage software for Kubernetes. It's a highly recognized CNCF project. It provides persistent storage support to Kubernetes, and enables the user to run stateful applications inside Kubernetes in development and production environments.

Specifically, we are looking for someone that is passionate and loves working with system-level software and open-source projects to further enhance and elevate these technologies within Harvester, Longhorn, and Rancher. Come join our team to help deliver cutting-edge open source technologies and be part of the container revolution!

Responsibilities:

• Leads multiple project teams of other software systems engineers and internal and outsourced development partners responsible for all stages of design and development for complex products and platforms, including solution design, analysis, coding, testing, and integration.
• Reviews and evaluates designs and project activities for compliance with systems design and development guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk.
• Provides domain-specific expertise and overall software systems leadership and perspective to cross-organization projects, programs, and activities.
• Drives innovation and integration of new technologies into projects and activities in the software systems design organization.
• Provides guidance and mentoring to less-experienced staff members.
• Develop features, enhancements, and bug fixes for Harvester and Longhorn (written in Go and C)
• Participate in Harvester, Longhorn, Rancher, Kubernetes open source community via Slack, Forums, and GitHub
• Be able to evangelize Harvester, Longhorn, Rancher, Kubernetes via blogs, meetups, and conference talks.
• Resolve issues uncovered in production deployments of Harvester, Longhorn, and Rancher
• Work with your fellow engineers and our customers to create a world-class product
• Write high-quality code along with accompanying tests to minimize regressions
• Working in an agile development environment

Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.
• Typically 6-10 years experience.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Extensive experience with multiple software systems design tools and languages.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Experience in overall architecture of software systems for products and solutions.
• Designing and integrating software systems running on multiple platform types into overall architecture.
• Evaluating forms and processes for software systems testing and methodology, including writing and execution of test plans, debugging, and testing scripts and tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local language. Ability to effectively communicate product architectures, design proposals and negotiate options at senior management levels.
• Comfortable in working in any modern Linux environments
• Knowledge of Linux system
• Fluency in languages like C/C++, Go, Bash, Python, and/or Java
• Experience in building maintainable and well-tested code
• Demonstrable troubleshooting and debugging ability
• Passionate about learning and researching new technologies
• Preferably have development experience with virtualization system / hypervisors / distributed storage system

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