Principal Linux Engineer, CIQ
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Enterprise-grade open source software infrastructure
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Enterprise-grade open source software infrastructure
101-200 employees
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101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify and unify software infrastructure, enabling customers to craft ground breaking technologies for generations to come.
Role
Who you are
- An understanding of Linux OS packaging, like RPM or DEB
- Familiarity with CVE’s and remediation of these for older versions of the code
- Deep understanding of how a Linux Operation system works, including how various packages interact with each other
- Ability to work independently & collaboratively within a remote team environment
- Proven experience with Linux administration, Linux internals, Docker, Kubernetes, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools and processes
- Familiarity with Ansible playbooks and/or DoD STIG/SCAP/RADIX process
- Proficient in: Bash, YAML, XML, JSON, REST APIs / OpenAPI, HTTP Get / Post
- Be familiar with Python, GoLang, Kubernetes, and other tools/technologies within Engineering
- Demonstrate problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills
- Able to pivot to new challenges in a fast-paced startup environment using agile methodologies
- A friendly, collaborative, humble, honest, and always striving to be better attitude
- Proven work experience as a Linux Engineer, Linux Development Engineer, or a Software developer with a focus on the Linux OS
- At least 4 years of experience supporting Linux and at least 2 years of experience building Linux Packages
What the job involves
- As a Principal Linux Engineer, you will be part of the team that owns software solutions for Rocky Linux from CIQ (RLC) and will be primarily responsible for building, patching, and testing userspace packages in the operating system
- You will also work on improving tooling and automation as part of the package-building process in the OS
- You need an understanding of CVE’s and how to remediate CVE’s in RPM packages that are shipped to customers
- You will also be working on how to customize, optimize, and create various packages to improve the customer experience with our products
- You will build out testing for both specific software as well as testing the system as a whole
- Working closely with the engineering, product, open-source community, and sales teams to develop relevant solutions
- Taking part in architecture-level discussions, planning, and implementation
- Documenting each project to share knowledge and facilitate integration for users
- Driving proofs of concept and minimum viable products for demonstration
- Focusing on quality by developing automated tests
- A Releasing fast and releasing often, software development mentality
- Leveraging source control (Github/ Gitlab) for all development while collaborating with internal teams and the open-source community
- Supporting multiple services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, software platform and framework development, capacity planning, and launch reviews
- Deployment on standard server architectures, virtual machines, and cloud infrastructure
Our take
Development of the Community Enterprise Linux Operating System (CentOS) was dropped by IBM’s RedHat in just 2020, leaving a gaping hole in the market. When CIQ’s founders swept in to offer a replacement, Rocky Linux, and a complementary support and servicing company CIQ, the demand reportedly skyrocketed - and, according to CIQ, it hasn’t subsided since.
That’s because the old CentOS was one of the principal OSs used by enterprise, cloud, VMs, and containers - Google, for example, was among one of its many enterprise users. Now Google has picked up Rocky Linux, and CIQ has consequently scooped up that major partnership too - and some healthy funding. It’s a fitting reward for a highly savvy play from the CIQ founders, picking up a tried-and-tested product that’s already achieved strong market penetration.
Besides Rocky Linux, CIQ has also developed cluster provisioning solution Warewulf, high performance computing (HPC) app containers tool Apptainer, and hybrid performance computing platform-as-a-Service Fuzzball. So it’s safe to say that CIQ has managed to skilfully manoeuvre its way into a pivotal position in the development of cutting edge high performance computing architecture. Now it will need to ensure it can capitalize on its lead.
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Insights
56% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2022
$26m
SERIES A
Jan 2021
$4m
SERIES A
Total funding: $30m
Company HQ
North Valleys, Reno, NV
Leadership
Gregory Kurtzer
(Co-Founder & CEO)Spent over 16 years as a System Architect, Technical Lead, and Scientific Advisor at Berkeley Lab, before moving into a Corporate Advisor role at RStor. Alongside this, also founded and served as CEO at Sylabs.
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