Job Summary:
Armada is a full-stack edge infrastructure company delivering compute, connectivity, and sovereign AI/ML to some of the world’s most remote places. The Senior Software Engineer will architect and develop core services for the Armada Edge Platform, focusing on software, networking, and platform infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
• Architect and develop robust infrastructure services that abstract platform complexity, creating a unified API for deploying to Azure Local, OpenShift, and standard Kubernetes clusters.
• Build custom Controllers, Operators, and orchestration logic that enable the Armada Edge Platform to interact seamlessly with Azure Arc and OpenShift APIs.
• Engineer Zero‑Touch Provisioning (ZTP) workflows for bare‑metal compute nodes, automating the path from bootstrap to production-ready status.
• Integrate hardware telemetry into the platform control plane to support health monitoring, including power and thermal metrics.
• Design and implement software services in Golang and Python to automate the provisioning and lifecycle management of Juniper SRX firewalls and switches.
• Build automated workflows for Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) of network gear, programmatically pushing configurations via Netconf/YANG or XML APIs.
• Develop tooling to audit network device state against intent-based configurations, ensuring the edge network remains secure and compliant.
• Design and implement security software components, including automated certificate management (PKI) and secure identity bootstrapping (SPIFFE/SPIRE).
• Build software to enforce Zero Trust principles, ensuring compute nodes and network devices are securely attested before joining the cluster.
• Build automated compliance agents that run across Linux and Azure Local nodes to detect and remediate security drift in real-time.
Qualifications:
Required:
• US Citizen
• Software Engineering: 8+ years of professional development experience, with a focus on backend systems, distributed architecture, platform engineering, or network automation.
• Golang Expertise: Expert-level proficiency in Golang (5+ years preferred), with experience building system-level daemons, control planes, or high-performance API services.
• Network Software Engineering: Proven experience writing software to provision and manage network devices (e.g., Juniper SRX) using programmatic interfaces like Netconf, RESTconf, or gRPC.
• Hybrid & Distributed Infrastructure: Technical familiarity with Kubernetes, Azure Local (Azure Stack HCI), or OpenShift architectures.
• Linux Internals: Deep experience with Linux systems programming, the networking stack, and troubleshooting within bare-metal environments.
• Technical Skills: Strong understanding of Docker, OCI runtimes, and L2/L3 networking protocols including BGP, OSPF, VLANs, and IPSec.
• Security-as-Code: Experience implementing PKI, mTLS, and Zero-Trust principles (e.g., SPIFFE/SPIRE) to enforce network and node security policies.
Preferred:
• Experience writing Custom Kubernetes Operators or Controllers to manage external infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with Azure SDKs or interacting with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) APIs programmatically.
• Familiarity with Ansible for declarative network configuration management.
• Experience with gRPC and Protobuf for high-performance internal service communication.
Company:
Armada develops computing infrastructure that supports AI processing, connectivity, and data management in remote environments. Founded in 2022, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.