Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This role stands out in SaaS-adjacent infrastructure where product value is measured in reliability, security, and interoperability rather than end-user features. Mirantis Secure Registry 4 sits in the cloud native supply chain, integrating with Kubernetes distributions and aligning to OCI and registry standards via its Harbor foundation. That places the work at the layer many SaaS companies depend on to ship software safely and repeatedly across environments.
For a SaaS career, the day-to-day exposure is highly transferable to platform and infrastructure product teams: designing backend services in Go, reasoning about distributed and orchestrated systems, and building quality in through automation. The emphasis on integrations with standard components mirrors the ecosystem reality of SaaS, where commercial products must coexist with existing tooling and varied customer architectures. Open source maintenance and roadmap influence also develop skills in operating with external constraints and public interfaces.
The position fits an engineer who prefers ownership over subsystems, enjoys debugging complex multi-process behavior, and is motivated by product engineering that blends development with operational correctness. It also suits someone who wants their backend work to be close to how modern SaaS is built and delivered, particularly in Kubernetes-centric environments.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Company Description
About Mirantis
Mirantis is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. By combining open source innovation with deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, Mirantis empowers platform engineering teams to deliver composable, production-ready developer platforms across any environment—on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, or in sovereign data centers. As enterprises navigate the growing complexity of AI-driven workloads, Mirantis delivers the automation, GPU orchestration, and policy-driven control needed to manage infrastructure with confidence and agility. Committed to open standards and freedom from lock-in, Mirantis ensures that customers retain full control of their infrastructure strategy.
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced
Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to MSR4 product team.
Mirantis Secure Registry (MSR) 4 is an Enterprise-grade container registry solution that can be integrated easily with standard Kubernetes distributions to provide tight security controls for cloud native development. Based on Harbor, which is open source and the only CNCF graduated container registry, this Mirantis product can serve as the core of an effective secure software supply chain.
MSR Documentation - https://docs.mirantis.com/msr/4.13/
Main Responsibilities
- Design, architect, implement, review, and test frameworks, libraries, tools, and services primarily using Go.
- Participate in requirement, design, planning, and retrospective meetings as an integral part of an Agile software development team.
- Contribute to successful sprints by implementing items contributing to overall team goals.
- Act as a subject matter expert and evangelist within the company and broader community.
- Be an active maintainer of Mirantis projects by managing contributions and patches to open-source projects, reviewing submissions, and participating in design decisions.
- Participate in product discussions, influence the roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects to make them happen.
- Be the technical reference to external partners and in-house engineering teams, provide support by sharing knowledge and/or taking on the development effort.
- Contribute to testing via automation and test plan reviews to prevent bugs from entering the product and eliminate regressions, ensuring a quality product every build.
- Ensure that MSR continues to be a first-class and indispensable part of diverse customer solutions, working seamlessly with existing systems including popular orchestrators and other industry-standard components.
Qualifications
Qualifications and Experience Requirements
- Bachelors or Masters degree or equivalent in computer science or a related subject
- Debugging: Particularly multi-process, orchestrated, distributed systems
- Knowledge of the creation and use of containerization, Kubernetes, and Registries (Harbor preferred)
- 5+ years development experience in a Linux or other Unix-like environment
- 3+ years of experience with Go programming language or any other modern programming language that builds applications to production
Preferred Extras
- Contributions to open-source Kubernetes or Go tooling projects.
- Certifications such as CKA, CKAD, or DCA.
- Experience with additional languages: Shell scripting, Python
- Experience with container registries (Harbor/MSR), OCI specs, Docker and/or Swarm.
Additional Information
What does Mirantis offer you?
- Work in a global, collaborative, remote-first culture that rewards initiative and execution.
- Play a pivotal role in shaping the next era of cloud and AI modernisation.
- Manage high-impact enterprise accounts with immediate opportunity for growth.
- Work with exceptionally passionate, talented and engaging colleagues, helping Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers implement next-generation cloud technologies.
- Be a part of cutting-edge, open-source innovation.
- Thrive in the high-energy environment of a young company where openness, collaboration, risk-taking, and continuous growth are valued.
- Professional development and training.
- Attend conferences and working groups.
- Customized workstation (macOS, Windows).
- Competitive compensation, performance incentives, and opportunities for advancement.
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