Principal Software Engineer, CIQ

GoLang

Salary not provided

+ Employee stock options

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Scala

Linux

Azure

Golang

Pulumi

Expert level

Remote from US

Enterprise-grade open source software infrastructure

Be an early applicant

Enterprise-grade open source software infrastructure

101-200 employees

B2BEnterpriseCloud Computing

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

+ Employee stock options

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Scala

Linux

Azure

Golang

Pulumi

Expert level

Remote from US

101-200 employees

B2BEnterpriseCloud Computing

Company mission

To simplify and unify software infrastructure, enabling customers to craft ground breaking technologies for generations to come.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You will have an understanding of Linux and Cloud infrastructure
Extensive experience with GoLang, Pulumi, Kubernetes, and other tools/technologies within engineering
The ability to pivot to new challenges in a fast-paced startup environment
Expertise in deriving solutions from high-level or incomplete requirements
Strong problem-solving skills and an eagerness to learn
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
The ability to work independently and collaboratively in a remote team environment
A friendly, collaborative, humble, honest, and always striving-to-be-better attitude
Flexibility to support an on-call rotation
A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a similar field
At least 10 years of experience writing software in Go, Python, Scala, etc
A demonstrated mastery of Linux and cloud(AWS/Azure/GCP)
High-performance or scientific computing experience is a plus

What the job involves

As a Principal Software Engineer - GoLang, you will work within the Engineering department to design, develop, and support enterprise solutions by contributing to the products and infrastructure for CIQ
You will also maintain our systems' capacity and performance
You need to be able to troubleshoot and improve applications and processes
You’ll analyze current code and industry developments to design engineering solutions to solve problems and create seamless user experiences
Leading and participating in architecture-level discussions, planning, and implementation
Researching to ensure that what we are building is always the best path forward
Documenting projects to share knowledge and facilitate integration for users
Driving proof of concepts and minimal viable products for demonstration
Supporting multiple services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews
Improving products by collaborating with Engineering teams, Product teams, Sales teams, and open-source communities (as needed) on optimal and relevant solutions while sharing knowledge
Designing and guiding solutions by filling the gap in ambiguous requirements

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.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

56% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.5)

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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