The Role:
Openchip is building exciting new RISC-V chips with HPC and AI acceleration. As a Staff Cloud Software Engineer you will play a crucial role within the cloud team will to ensure that our chips can be orchestrated, observed, and managed from the cloud by delivering Kubernetes device plug-ins, exposing to observability stacks, and integrating with cloud hosted fleet management frameworks.
Key responsibilities:
1. Make independent technical contributions to help their team deliver its commitments. In particular:
2. Understand the technical landscape of their project and make decisions about it.
3. Make independent technical contributions, especially for the most foundational or challenging parts of the project.
– Deliver Kubernetes Device Plug-ins and extensions to ensure our platforms and microservices running on them can be orchestrated and managed from the cloud.
– Integrate on cloud hosted Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, GKE, etc.), local upstream downstream (RedHat OpenShift, SUSE Ranches, etc.), and light-weight Kubernetes distributions (K3s, MicroShift, etc.).
– Implement workload placement methods to maximise the performance of Cloud and HPC workloads on our platforms.
– Deliver cloud observability of our platforms by integrating into popular frameworks (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, etc.) ensuring our platforms meet Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) needs.
– Integrate with popular Fleet Management frameworks for managing fleets of our platforms running in Kubernetes Clusters.
– Work with eco system partners to integrate into their stacks (RedHat OpenShift, Canonical Kubernetes, SUSE Rancher, etc.).
– Utilize cloud services (compute, storage, databases, networking, etc.) to build scalable applications.
4. Develop APIs and integrations for cloud-based services.
– Develop, test and integrate on our pre-silicon (simulators, emulation, FPGAs) and silicon environments.
– Implement and manage continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for cloud applications.
– Collaborate with DevOps teams to automate deployment processes and manage releases.
– Ensure applications and infrastructure are secure, adhering to best practices for identity and access management, encryption, and data protection.
– Stay up to date with cloud security standards and compliance regulations.
– Document technical specifications and system architecture.
– Contribute upstream where appropriate.
5. Interact with colleagues across projects to unblock issues, or to reach consensus on technical topics. In particular:
6. Interact with engineers and leads from their and other teams to unblock issues, or to reach consensus on technical topics. In particular:
– Work with hardware teams, influencing hardware/software co-design.
– Work with teams developing compilers, firmware, AI stacks, and middleware, and contribute as necessary.
– Collaborate with colleagues through code reviews, bug triaging, design documents,...
– Contribute to shared team responsibilities (CI failure triaging, documentation, code fixits, rotations...).
7. Provide technical guidance to more junior team members, also acting as a mentor.
8. Review team artifacts (design documents, code changes) both for correctness but also for code quality and consistency.
9. Identify opportunities for code and/or process improvement.
10. Loop in directors and above as needed, for instance to surface potential risks or get feedback based on area-level technical knowledge.
11. Collaborate with program managers for task and deliverable tracking, as well as process improvements.
Required qualifications:
• Bachelor or Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• Experience in the relevant field (more than 10 years).
• Bachelor or Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript with Node.js.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, etc.).
• Experience with Kubernetes and Kubernetes device plug-ins.
• Experience with Docker.
• Experience delivering cloud-hosted microservices at scale.
• Strong knowledge of networking, databases, and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with IaC tools (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, etc.).
• Experience with observability tools (ELK, Open Telemetry, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS Cloud Watch, etc.).
• Solid knowledge about computer architecture (CPU, cache, memory hierarchy, buses, etc.).
• Experience with standard tools for source control (git), continuous integration, task management (Jira).
• Experience with standard tools for source control (git), continuous integration, task management (Jira).
Soft skills:
• Team player: communicative and collaborative person who focuses on the outcome of the team above the individual needs.
• Curious about learning new technologies/stacks.
• Capable of within- and cross-team collaboration at the technical level.
• Can-do attitude, proactive and willing to step up and resolve any obstacle. Self-aware, self-starter, and self-motivated.
• Within- and cross-team collaboration at the technical level.
• Experience leading teams at the technical level (not necessarily with a formal management role).
Preferred qualifications:
• Experience with service meshs (ISTIO, Envoy, LinkerD, etc.).
• Experience with lightweight Kubernetes (K3s, K0s, MicroK8s, MiniKube, MicroShift, etc.).
• Experience with RISC-V development at the assembly-language level.
• Experience with GitOps (Cluster + Apps + Policies).
• Experience with Kubeflow.
• Experience with kernel and/or device driver development.
• Experience with emulators and simulators (Qemu, Gem5, Spike).
• Experience with hypervisor technology (KVM, Xen).
• Experience with open source software development.
We are looking for outstanding people willing to join our mission to change this industry and help to build a better world.
If you feel identified with Openchip, please contact us. We can offer a competitive compensation package in a flexible work schema that will help you to keep a balance between your personal and professional life.
At Openchip & Software Technologies S.L., we believe a diverse and inclusive team is the key to groundbreaking ideas. We foster a work environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to reach their full potential – regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity.