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Senior Software Engineer - Golang, Open Source

ABOUT THE JOB
We are looking for passionate Golang developers to design, develop, and operate key components of Nirmata, including OSS / CNCF projects like Kyverno and kube-netc. Nirmata is a next generation application management platform powered by Kubernetes and the CNCF ecosystem. Software engineers in this role will work directly with Kubernetes, Containderd, Istio, and several other open source projects. The role requires good knowledge of networking protocols (TCP, HTTP, etc.), security concepts, as well as knowledge of operating systems like Linux and Windows. Our developers love to contribute to the community through meet-ups, blog posts, hackathons, and open source projects. Our developers are also contributors to CNCF projects such as the Multi Tenancy WG.

SOME PROJECTS YOU’LL WORK ON:

Nirmata is the company behind Kyverno, the CNCF OpenSource project. As a member of the Nirmata engineering team, you will have the unique opportunity to work on the leading Kubernetes native Policy Management solution.
Nirmata’s solution is composed of Kyverno, a policy engine running as an admission controller in Kubernetes and a set of Cloud micros services developed in Java.
Nirmata also develops Kubernetes controllers used to communicate with Nirmata SaaS. You will have the opportunity to work on the scalability and the performance aspects of these components.

DUTIES:

Make significant contributions at the requirements level, architecture level and design to confirm Nirmata as the Policy Management industry leader
Design and implement new features for the Kyverno Policy Manager
Help to create and enforce coding and process standards for application development
Plan, schedule and execute assignments to milestones
You will be one of Nirmata’s maintainers on the Kyverno Open Source project
You will review Pull Requests submitted from the Open Source community
Act with a sense of urgency to achieve critical milestones and resolve customer issues
Provide technical leadership
Mentor junior engineers
Mentor the development team in the adoption and use of best practices and design patterns
Improve the software development process

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